Medical Devices

"SweynTooth" impacts several microchip and medical device manufacturers, and could allow bad actors to wirelessly crash or access these products, according to the agency.

In the first edition of the HIMSS TV series "Assimilation," we take a tour of Inova Fairfax Hospital, where residents in training and physicians use operative simulators and immersive 3D to hone their surgical skills.

Healthcare providers and device manufacturers are both responsible for putting mitigations in place to address patient safety risks, says FDA's Suzanne Schwartz.

To prevent cybersecurity incidents, it is important to recognize the enormity and complexity of the problem, and to catalog various threats and vulnerabilities, as one infosec expert will show at HIMSS20.

With the number of connected devices steadily increasing, health systems and hospitals need a comprehensive plan to guard against cyber threats. At HIMSS20, one infosec pro will describe some best practices.

At HIMSS20, AT&T's global director of strategy and innovation will describe the advantages of 5G cellular and edge computing, and describe some of the best healthcare use cases for the next-gen communication specs.

The communication says vulnerabilities in Clinical Information Central Stations and Telemetry Servers "might allow an attack to happen undetected and without user interaction."

Masimo, the maker of monitoring technologies and connectivity tools for hospitals, announced this week that it will acquire the connected care assets of NantHealth for $47.

CEMOSoft CEO Mahesh Dharan demonstrates how his company's products connect devices to improve patient experience.

Ben Sych, strategy and partnership manager at the AMA, says no matter how compelling a solution looks to investors, physicians need data evidence to see value of adoption.