Medical Devices
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Is IT Innovation Driving Physicians Out The Door?
Rather than face the perfect storm of decreasing reimbursement, increasing costs, legislative mandates, and penalties around technology adoption, information exchange, and Meaningful Use, an alarming number of physicians are making the decision to "go quietly into the night" and retire early from practice. Read More »
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ITU Signs Off Network Spec For Personal Medical Devices
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has signed off a new standard for communication between personal medical devices. Read More »
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Joint Commission Warns About Dangers From Alarm Fatigue
The nation's largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a warning to hospitals about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms. Read More »
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Joint Study between VA and UL shows UL Cybersecurity Standard provides robust risk management for connected medical devices
The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) and UL, a global safety science organization, today announced the completion of a two-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Program for medical device cybersecurity. As medical devices are susceptible to cybersecurity attacks, creating both patient safety risks and disclosure risks for protected health information, the VA and UL sought to address an existing gap in the marketplace for cybersecurity standards and practical certification approaches for connected medical devices. With the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) revolutionizing patient care, increasing efficiency and improving healthcare quality, the VA aimed to find solutions for securing large-scale IoMT device deployments supporting mission-critical care delivery for roughly nine million patients under its care. Read More »
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Kinsa Smart Thermometer Takes Grand Prize In Innovate Health Tech
Kinsa Smart Thermometer was announced today as the $25k grand prize winner in Innovate Health Tech NYC, a competition designed to promote innovation within NYC’s health technology sector... Read More »
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Lawyers Weigh In On FDA App Guidance
The Food and Drug Administration’s recent letter to Biosense Technologies regarding an app that can conduct urine analysis has caused healthcare attorneys to sit up and take notice. Read More »
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Lee Ah Mooi Old Age Home Implements Napier Open Source Nursing Home Solution
110-Bed private nursing home calls on Napier Healthcare to automate its entire elderly care provider operations, increase efficiency and improve resident satisfaction
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Medical Device Interoperability Could Save $30B A Year, Says WHI
Improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings, according to a new report from the West Health Institute...
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Medical Devices Summit 2018 Gathers top Experts
Opal Group, a global conference organizer that caters to top executives and influencers, will bring together the foremost medical and tech experts for its Medical Devices Summit 2018 on March 26 – 27, 2018. The two-day premier event will take place at the Revere Hotel Boston Common, located on 200 Stuart Street, Boston, MA. “Our Medical Devices Summit has always provided a platform for several of the most important tech and medical names to create deep conversations,” said Michelle Cardinal, Opal Group’s event producer.
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mHealth Oversight Suggestions Nearing End Of The Beginning
The long and winding road to federal regulation or oversight of mHealth still has some ground to cover, but a key Food and Drug Administration Safety Innovation Act sub-workgroup has tentative suggestions that are about three organizational layers removed from the FDA. Read More »
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Microsoft Aims To Take On iPad In Health Care
When internist Nitin Patel called up Microsoft MSFT +0.15% in May to rave about its Surface Pro tablet, Dennis Schmuland, the company’s head of health strategy for U.S. Health & Life Sciences, was taken aback... Read More »
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MIT Hackathon Tackles HIV, CHF, Parkinson’s With Open-Source Technology
It seems counterintuitive for those who proudly wear the “hacker” label to seek ways to work with established industry players rather than being disruptive in a healthcare sector badly in need of radical change, but that was what happened at Health and Wellness Innovation 2013, the recently concluded 11-day event better known as MIT Media Lab’s Health and Wellness Hackathon. Read More »
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MIT Sets Sights On Open-Source mHealth During Innovation Event
The MIT Media Lab’s eleven-day Health and Wellness Hackathon is not your average gadget exhibition. Bringing together eighty participants from around the world, the annual event, which was held in January, is designed to inspire new ways to fix an age old problem: how to use technology to prevent illnesses before they start. Read More »
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MU Creates 'Medical Bridges To Nowhere'
As far as Patrick Soon-Shiong is concerned, the $34 billion health IT and electronic medical record incentive program was a grave misstep for the healthcare industry -- but not necessarily for the reasons one might think. Read More »
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National Medical Device Registries Task Force Recommends Partnerships to Build National System for Medical Devices
The federal government and stakeholders interested in device innovation and evaluation should support the creation of a comprehensive partnership on medical devices to monitor the products' performance after they become commercially available, a Food and Drug Administration-initiated and independent national group of experts is recommending in a report. The recommendations call for a master network of data in each clinical area where devices are used. Information on medical devices does exist — in registries, electronic health records (EHR) and claims data — but the disparate locations make it difficult for regulators, doctors and patients to understand and use it efficiently. Yet millions of patients undergo surgery each year and require some type of medical device during the procedure.
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