Medical Devices

At the HIMSS Healthcare Cybersecurity Forum on Thursday, leaders from the Health Sector Coordinating Council offered advice for a collaborative layered defense to help health systems bolster responsiveness and stabilize their security postures.

The medtech company says it is the only manufacturer of FDA-approved pulse oximeters to have reached an agreement in a lawsuit against many over the devices' notoriously higher rates of error for people with darker skin.

The Digital Medicine Society's seal aims to evaluate health application products' baseline security, usability and clinical return on investment to help decision-makers scrutinize which tools are best for patient care.

Also, AIIMS Delhi is the latest to open a training centre featuring Intuitive's RAS system in India.

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.    

Started amid the recent pandemic, smart hospitals are now being expanded nationwide.

Himaja Motheram, a security researcher, walks CISOs and other security leaders through the various weaknesses in healthcare and offers solutions to protect organizations and their data.

Also, Singapore's National Healthcare Group has set up an AI centre with Nanyang Technological University.

A potentially shortened battery life in the MiniMed 600 or 700 series insulin pumps may result in the pump stopping insulin delivery significantly sooner than expected.  

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.