Guidance includes information about what’s protected—and what is not—when using period trackers and other health information apps on smartphones.
Standalone best-of-breed Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) systems have historically been leveraged to help solve the transactional needs of clinical engineering, IT and facilities. Yet few organizations are currently capitalizing on the wealth of data generated from these systems. In this article, we’ll examine some of these opportunities and offers suggestions as the industry begins developing our “next generation” of EAM systems.
Rapid developments in healthcare technology, combined with improved data collection, pandemic pressures and increased consumer demand for tech-enabled and virtual health care, are fueling innovation and transformation in the digital health space.
This year, the healthcare industry will step up its fight against cyberattacks because the costs and risks to patient care are becoming too great.
Five steps to better protect providers, medtech companies, their networks, data and patients from a cyberattack.
A global pandemic is still upon us, but that certainly does not mean that healthcare technology innovation is standing still. To help the medical device industry look to the future and prepare, experts from regulation and academia alike are bringing attention to the acceleration and pitfalls of innovation.
Healthcare cannot remain reactive to dealing with cybersecurity risks. We must take a new, proactive approach to protecting our users, and our systems must prioritize reducing the extent of reliance on users against unknown threats.
As more healthcare activities take place from home, passive continuous monitoring solutions and new technology such as artificial intelligence will be critical to communications between providers and patients. In addition, new solutions that offer overnight monitoring will play a crucial role in helping to fill the gaps, particularly in assessing patient deterioration or changes in health conditions. The pandemic has forever changed the trajectory of healthcare and specifically virtual care.
Increased use of remote and telehealth programs, networked medical devices, and “smart” product storage come with their own inherent risks.
