Women's healthcare faces an uphill battle after centuries of being ignored. Yet, ironically enough, women currently share half of the consumerism market, hold power over 80% of household financial decisions, and make 70% of healthcare-related choices in their families. Despite this, their access to proper healthcare often comes up short. But with the market for women's healthcare predicted to be worth over $47 billion, changes are starting to occur. And with the recent attacks and laws on
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Biomedical Engineering
Palo Alto Networks Launches Medical IoT Security for Medical Devices
What You Should Know: What You Should Know: - Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW) announced Medical IoT Security — the most comprehensive Zero Trust security solution for medical devices — enabling healthcare organizations to quickly and securely deploy and manage new connected technologies. Zero Trust is a strategic approach to cybersecurity that secures an organization by eliminating implicit trust by continuously verifying every user and device. - As healthcare providers use digital
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It’s Time to Give Patients “Admin Access” to Manage Their Healthcare
While the entire healthcare industry is inching toward giving people more autonomy to manage their care, we can’t seem to hand over the keys just yet. The latest KLAS data on patient preferences shows that most individuals interacting with the healthcare system want greater control, especially over their care visits. That’s because the capabilities patients value most—including appointment scheduling, prescription refill
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HCA Makes Strategic Investment in Cardiac Monitoring Wearable VitalConnect
What You Should Know: - VitalConnect®, Inc., a leader in remote and in-hospital wearable biosensor technology, has just announced the completion of an investment funded by Health Insight Capital, the investment arm of HCA Healthcare Inc., (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. - The investment will go toward further accelerating VitalConnect’s rapidly growing cardiac monitoring business segment while advancing key Remote Patient Monitoring of individuals who
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Rethinking Custom RTLS: Indoor Positioning Simplified as a Service
For healthcare facilities, real-time location services (RTLS) were initially established on premise for patient safety to later become a priority in mainstreaming operations, improving patient care and experience and employee satisfaction. Originally introduced to the industry as a security-centric measure to protect newborns, and prevent infant abduction, RTLS was a simple solution that has been effective, and facilities began to see a number of additional benefits. But it required a
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Why Remote Medical Solutions Are More Than Just A Pandemic Response
The health industry has increasingly emphasized convenience these past few decades, with methods developed to seamlessly integrate health management into our daily routines. Gone are the days in which people needed an entire day off just to see the doctor. This same focus has taken on extra meaning as of late, with the pandemic creating a need for treatment options that work around the constraints of social distancing. As a result, a host of digital-based solutions began appearing, providing
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Social Distancing for Medical Devices: 5 Steps to Clinical Network Segmentation to Thwart Cyber-Attacks
Since the beginning of 2020, cyber-attacks have spiked by 300%. As members of the world's most targeted industry, healthcare organizations like hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, and distributors of medical equipment are more at risk now than ever. Even if an attack isn't directly targeted at connected medical (or, Internet of Medical Things: IoMT) devices, it can spread through a hospital’s internal network and infect equipment used to diagnose and treat patients such as IV pumps, patient
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UCLA Health’s COVID-19 Swab Shortage Solved With 3D-Printed Swabs
What You Should Know: - With COVID-19 numbers rising in California, an innovative project has solved UCLA Health's testing swabs shortage with 3D-printed swabs. - In just over a month, and after conducting rigorous clinical testing of several 3D-printed swab prototypes on patients with COVID-19, UCLA Health was granted permission from the Food and Drug Administration to use the most promising design. An innovative effort launched in April and led by a fellow in the UCLA
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Why COVID-19 is Prompting Device OEMs to Partner with Software Developers
As COVID-19 continues to sicken thousands across the U.S., hospital staffs deserve every bit of praise they’re receiving for their service. Yet there’s another segment of the medical community on the front lines of the pandemic: medical device manufacturers. While some forms of medical equipment have been marginalized or sidelined altogether, manufacturers of essential devices are working around the clock. According to an April 2020 Fortune Business Insights report, those with significant
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Do We Know When Medical Devices Fail?
Since 2015, the FDA and the US Department of Homeland Security have been releasing warnings about products that due to their vulnerabilities threaten patient safety. This includes MRI machines and drug infusion pumps that supply patients with a wide diversity of drugs, including insulin, antibiotics, chemotherapy drugs, and pain relievers. The interconnectivity of smart devices with medical clinical systems leaves them vulnerable to security breaches just like any other networked computing
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