Medical Devices
Emteq Labs launches its emotion-sensing eyewear, Sense, which collects and records real-world data on a wearer’s facial expressions. Steen Strand, CEO, talks about the glasses' potential use cases for healthcare.
At the VA, automation is helping innovate troubleshooting, maintenance other med device management tasks, says Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Dayton, Ohio.
The company's digital health tools – smart scales, blood pressure monitors and other wearables – allow patients to monitor their health at home, says Antoine Robiliard, VP at Withings.
Pillbot allows gastroenterologists to examine a patient's stomach virtually through a drone the patient swallows, says Torrey Smith, cofounder and CEO of Endiatx, which develops the technology.
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Henry Yoo, general manager at Medicore, South Korea, discusses the company's device, developed with data from both Asian and Western patients, which measures heart rate variability as an indicator of stress and cardiovascular health.
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As the number of ransomware incidents against healthcare organizations increases, providers need to employ key strategies to protect patient data, says Tapan Mehta, health executive at Palo Alto Networks.
Most hospitals do not patch medical devices at the same frequency as traditional networks and need compensating security controls to address their unquantified device vulnerabilities, says Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera.
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.
