The findings suggest that manufacturers need to make user interface and user experience design improvements to certain wearable medical devices.
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Evolving the Field of Neuromodulation: Four Trends Driving the Shift to Personalized Care
There is significant opportunity to develop therapies that create new standards of care and initiate a new wave of precision medicine.
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FDA Issues Cybersecurity Alert About Vulnerabilities in Software Components
Unauthorized access could allow an attacker to take full control of the host operating system.
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Disruptive Digital Health Models: Improving Access, Eliminating Bias and Delivering Higher Quality Care
Fueled by the need to provide quality care during a global pandemic, healthcare stakeholders are acting quickly to identify new opportunities and overcome challenges.
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Neutralizing the Healthcare Industry’s Biggest Cyberthreats
Five steps to better protect providers, medtech companies, their networks, data and patients from a cyberattack.
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Setting the Stage for the Next Generation of Medical Devices
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.
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Changes in Healthcare Security Start with Better Device-Driven Security
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.
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The Last Major Technical Hurdle for Personalized Medicine: Manufacturability
Although the future is exciting, it also poses real challenges. More collaborative initiatives need to take place between drug manufacturers and developers of manufacturing equipment and consumables.
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Critical Issues in Remote Monitoring: Data Capture and Quality
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.
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The Evolution of Medical Device Cybersecurity Threats in the Wake of COVID-19
The omicron variant of the coronavirus has made clear that the impact of the pandemic is far from over, particularly for health systems and hospitals. The ongoing need to limit close contact between providers and patients means technology will continue to play a key role, but with that increased reliance on technology comes the heightened exposure to cyber risks, as well.
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