Medical Devices

As RSNA kicks off in Chicago, here's a roundup of some recent radiology and imaging IT announcements.

The announcement comes about four months after Musk relayed his vision for patients with an Optimus robotic arm or leg to have the ability to control their limbs with the N1 implant.

Anahi Santiago, chief information security officer at ChristianaCare, says the architecture to develop security programs is shifting as providers manage a larger number of partners in the supply chain and in hospital at home programs.

The Health Promotion Board is piloting two preventative health programmes with Google and Abbott involving 6,000 Singaporeans.

Nearly half of FDA-approved AI medical devices haven't been trained on real patient data. Dr. Jay Anders, chief medical officer at Medicomp Systems, offers solutions to this challenge, and explains problems with using synthetic data.

In a letter to the FDA, members of Congress cite confusion over providers' deployment of clinical decision support software that is exempt from medical device regulations and call for clarity from its Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

Also, Australia's aged care research centre has received additional funding to deploy AI.

The combination of 5G and IoT could redefine remote healthcare, getting closer to a future where patients can receive hospital-grade care from anywhere. And more user-friendly and patient-centered devices should drive broader adoption.

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.