Jeff Fallon, CEO, eVideon
It wasn’t that long ago that people went to the bank on a Friday to cash their paper paychecks. Maybe they’d put some in checking and take some out in cash. They’d go to the grocery store over the weekend and maybe write one of those checks. Everyone always had to have a pen with them.
It wasn’t that long ago that people would call the ticket agent and discuss flight options for vacation. They’d send a paper ticket in the mail. When it was time to go, people
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Medical Devices | Policy & Regulation News, Analysis, Insights - HIT Consultant
Telehealth and Cybersecurity: What You Should Know
Healthcare providers are seeing between 50 and 175 times (1) more patients via telehealth than before. Telehealth platforms* offer solutions for a wide array of different healthcare issues. An estimated 20 percent of all emergency room visits and 24 percent of routine office visits and outpatient volume could be delivered virtually via telehealth.
Telehealth is a win-win for providers and patients. It both increases the availability of care while also reducing costs. However, telemedicine
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COVID-19: Why Designers Must Play A Larger Role in Healthcare’s Future
Stuart Karten, Principal of Karten Design
The coronavirus outbreak has brought epic casualties as more than 7.3 million cases have been confirmed globally and more than 413,000 people--and counting--are known to have died. In the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown flaws in our medical system, from basic preparedness to the coordinated distribution of medical equipment. Within this global tragedy, there are stories of heroism and renewed mind power and energy addressing
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Q/A: Xealth’s CEO Talks Preparing for the Digital Health Avalanche
Mike McSherry, CEO of Xealth
Xealth’s CEO and Cofounder Mike McSherry explain how healthcare systems can leverage the right data with the right digital health tools.
There’s no
doubt the swell that is big data has been building for some time. However, the
question of how useful and all that data will continue to plague healthcare
providers. The overwhelm of information is real, but so is the potential for providers
to make actionable use of it, according to tech innovators.
With
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Vonage, Redox Integrate Telehealth Data with EHRs to Support Interoperability
What You Should
Know:
- Vonage and
Redox form partnership where Vonage API users can now leverage Redox APIs to
exchange telehealth data with electronic health records (EHRs).
- Together the
companies enable healthcare providers to connect effectively and privately with
patients via a platform that is fully interoperable with EHRs and other leading
healthcare data source systems.
Vonage, a global leader in cloud communications helping businesses accelerate their digital
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Social Distancing for Medical Devices: 5 Steps to Clinical Network Segmentation to Thwart Cyber-Attacks
Leon Lerman, Cynerio Co-Founder and CEO
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
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EnsoData Raises $9M to Accelerate Waveform AI Platform for Clinicians
What You Should Know:
- EnsoData announces its official launch and a $9M Series A funding round to accelerate analysis and understanding of human health, starting with sleep disorder diagnoses.
- Using AI, EnsoData’s technology transforms billions of waveform data points (outputs from heartbeats on an EKG, eye movement through an EOG, brain waves through an EEG, etc.) collected from sensors in medical devices and wearables into an easy-to-read report.
- EnsoData saves clinics and
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Osso VR Brings Film Industry Level Quality VR Surgical Training to OR
What You Need to Know:
- Osso VR rolls out new immersive training experience that has taken a new leap forward in its realism, from the anatomical details of the “patient” to the medical tools and OR environment.
- The training platform is designed for surgeons, sales teams and surgical team trainees to address complexities in learning common procedures and to use new medical devices by providing realistic, haptic-enhanced interactions in an immersive training environment that is
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What’s the Secret to Building the Hospital of the Future? Simplicity.
Bob Zemke, Director, Vertical & Technical Alliances at Extreme Networks
As the healthcare industry becomes more connected, executives are increasingly looking for ways to digitally transform and provide next-level, life-saving care to patients. But it comes at a cost — and it’s not just monetary. The spiraling complexity of hospital networks is becoming a massive problem for health IT staff, and it’s inhibiting hospitals’ ability to advance. Brought on by years of network technologies and
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Telehealth Could Be The Solution for a Pandemic, But Are We Too Late?
Juan Pablo Segura, Co-founder of Babyscripts
In the past several months, Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) has risen from humble beginnings in a Wuhan farmer’s market to international status: dominating the news cycle, exhausting the world’s hand sanitizer resources, and generally monopolizing the mental real estate of the developed world.
As new cases continue to be identified in the U.S., politicians are giving coronavirus the attention it deserves, responding to initial accusations of
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