Medical Devices
Thanks to machine learning, pocket-sized cardiac sonography can help any medical professional make real-time cardiac-care decisions in acute, field, EMS and rural settings, says UltraSight CEO and cofounder Davidi Vortman.
Assume a bad actor is already on your health system network and set up tripwires to identify and address what is happening quickly before more damage is done, said Ali Youssef, a cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health.
Taking care to address the challenges of securing remote patient monitoring devices will help mitigate the cybersecurity risks of hospital-at-home care, says Kevin Littlefield, principal, cybersecurity at MITRE.
There are cybersecurity risks posed by smart medical devices, but most people would not be a target of such attacks, said Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
According to the French Ministry of Health's Louisa Stuwe, digital devices for remote patient monitoring and digital therapeutics now enjoy fast-track access and reimbursement in France. The process is comparable to Germany's DiGA.
While sharing insights on the medical device industry in China at HIMSS23, David Chen, director of business development for Shine Technology, stresses the importance of partnering to further new technologies.
The newly released Apple Vision Pro augmented reality headset has potential in medicine, including how its eye-tracking technology could affect a surgeon's performance, says Sam Glassenberg, founder and CEO of Level Ex.
Health data from wearable and implantable medical devices should be surrounded by stronger security, says Michelle Ramim, assistant professor of health informatics at Nova Southeastern University.
Smartphone tools can help improve health equity by improving care access and empowering patients to collect and transmit their own data via wearables, says Anna Schoenbaum, VP of information services applications at Penn Medicine.
Geisinger is using smart TVs to deliver to patients relevant, integrated clinical information, says Rebecca Stametz, VP of digital transformation at the company's Steele Institute for Health Innovation.
