The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an advisory this week about critical vulnerabilities to software used in medical […]
Brigham and Women's and Biofourmis codevelop home hospital technology
In November, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took several new steps to help U.S. hospitals manage the crush […]
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
MIT engineers have developed a magnetically steerable, thread-like robot that can actively glide through narrow, winding pathways, such as the […]
Low-cost retinal scanner could help prevent blindness worldwide: Re-engineered device offers clinically accurate eye scans at a fraction of the cost
Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a low-cost, portable optical coherence tomography (OCT) scanner that promises to bring the […]
Machine learning approach for low-dose CT imaging yields superior results: Findings make a strong case for harnessing the power of artificial intelligence in CT
Machine learning has the potential to vastly advance medical imaging, particularly computerized tomography (CT) scanning, by reducing radiation exposure and […]
How to assess the security of hospital IoT
“We’ve seen infusion pumps infected with malware – while connected to patients,” says Joe Lea, vice president of product safety […]
Mayo Clinic, ASU pick six startups for health IT accelerator
The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University (ASU) announced the selection of six startups for its inaugural cohort of the […]
Catalyst renders nerve agents harmless
A team of scientists including researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has studied a catalyst […]
Interoperability: Do we have the value proposition upside down?
Dr. Doug Fridsma, CEO of the American Medical Informatics Association, has been working on the nuts and bolts of interoperability […]
Quantum physics and origami for the ultimate get-well card: Scientists have combined the simplicity of paper with the complexity of quantum physics for point-of-care testing
Paper-based diagnostic tests are cheap, convenient and biodegradable. However, their use is limited by conventional dyes — which are not […]