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Abstract

A Medical Device Application (MDA) modifies the booting process for a mobile device to configure it into a known secure configuration for communicating with an implantable medical device (IMD). The modified booting process allows a user to select either normal use of the mobile device or use as a medical device for communicating with an IMD, and takes automatic actions to implement the secure configuration if the latter is selected. For example, a secure medical device kernel can be provided to the mobile device's operating system, which when loaded configures the mobile device into the secure configuration. Alternatively, the operating system can load with its less-secure normal kernel, but automatically runs initialization software after it loads to initialize the mobile device into the secure configuration. The MDA further preferably provides a graphical user interface to allow a user to communicate with the IMD using the now-secure mobile device.

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