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NIST Seeks Input on Development and Use of AI

By MedTech Intelligence Staff

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking input from industry to support its response to President Biden’s Executive Order on AI. Comments, which are due February 2, 2024, will help NIST develop guidelines for evaluation and red-teaming, consensus-based standards and more.

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Ronen Lavi
Ronen Lavi
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Moving Mountains (of Data): How Clinical AI Is Empowering Primary Care

By Ronen Lavi

Even AI models trained on general medical literature will have difficulty making sense of the nuances specific to primary care, which is full of unique jargon, abbreviations and other idiosyncrasies. As always, the proverbial devil is in the details. Any AI solution worth its salt must be fluent in the specific idioms of the field and empower clinicians to deliver the best care that they can.

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Roger Lam
Roger Lam
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5 Ways to Maximize the Security of Edge Medical Devices

By Roger Lam

Timely firmware updates are only one part of the hardware-related security equation. Whether it’s a hematology analyzer, CT scanner or any other networked medical device, the ability to withstand as well as recover from a malicious attack begins with the contract manufacturer that builds the embedded system. Here are five questions to ask your hardware integrator to be sure that your devices are equipped with maximum protection both before and after delivery.

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Renée Bailey
Renée Bailey

Instructional Materials: The Basis for Safety Between Users and Medical Devices

By Renée Bailey

Instructional materials help users grasp how to use a device safely. Renée Bailey, Certified Instructional Technologist (CIT), explains how effective instructional materials are vital for the medtech design process, and shares necessary considerations to produce instructions that are coherent, easy to understand and aligned with the human factors engineering process.

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