Effective healthcare depends on the integrity of parts and consumables – covering everything from surgical tools to diagnostic strips. Counterfeit products and unauthorized reuse of consumables may pose serious risks to patient safety and effective patient treatment. OPTIGA™ Authenticate solutions offer enhanced device authentication to protect against counterfeits. These solutions allow manufacturers and users to check whether consumables are authentic before use, thereby safeguarding health and brand integrity. OPTIGA™ solutions help meet expanding regulatory requirements such as the US Protecting and Transforming Cyber Health Care Act (PATCH) and the EU Medical Device Regulation.

Counterfeit healthcare products are a serious and growing concern as they may pose various risks to manufacturers and patients.

The Dangers of Counterfeit Products
The Dangers of Counterfeit Products
The Dangers of Counterfeit Products

A lack of security features in healthcare devices and disposables may foster counterfeiting and tampering, resulting in substandard or contaminated products which could compromise patient health.

For healthcare device manufacturers, counterfeits may not only tarnish their brand reputation but also may result in lost revenue from replacement parts and disposables.

A rise in the unintended reuse of disposed products is accentuating risks to patient safety.

To combat these threats, healthcare device makers need to provide an intuitive and well-secured way to verify the authenticity of their products, to protect hospitals and patients from dangerous counterfeit products.

Why hardware-based authentication?

Hardware-based authentication offers advanced measures against counterfeits
Hardware-based authentication offers advanced measures against counterfeits
Hardware-based authentication offers advanced measures against counterfeits

Hardware-based security solutions provide a solid foundation to enable cloning protection and advanced anti-counterfeiting in healthcare devices and disposables. The benefits of hardware-based authentication are:

  • Robust: More secured, long-lasting solution relative to other measures that are susceptible to be easily bypassed
  • Future-proof: Protection designed to address both current and emerging security threats
  • Custom solutions: Portfolio meets application-specific needs

These easy-to-integrate security solutions also enable anti-counterfeiting solutions across different healthcare devices and offer the right security features to meet healthcare device requirements. 

OPTIGA™ Authenticate solutions for healthcare applications

OPTIGA Authenticate Contact-based and Contactless
OPTIGA Authenticate Contact-based and Contactless
OPTIGA Authenticate Contact-based and Contactless

Our OPTIGA™ range of hardware-based authentication products provides versatile solutions to address different interface, memory, sterilization, radiation, and security requirements. Benefit from advanced, customizable solutions that are easy to integrate:

OPTIGA™ Authenticate NBT 

OPTIGA™ Authenticate NFC Secured Tag

OPTIGA™ Authenticate On

OPTIGA™ Authenticate S 

Why choose Infineon’s authentication solutions?

OPTIGA Authenticate Description
OPTIGA Authenticate Description
OPTIGA Authenticate Description

Our security-by-design approach from the foundation to the point of use along with effective lifecycle management protects your brand and offers high investment protection for your healthcare devices today and in the future.

Why Infineon?

Why Infineon?
Why Infineon?
Why Infineon?

It is the customers responsibility to carefully assess whether the Infineon products fulfill the requirements of their application. Infineon Technologies points out that the Infineon products are not specifically designed and tested for use in medical applications.