CISA issues advisory about Siemens software vulnerabilities On 2021-11-12 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 On 2021-01-11 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 On 2019-08-28 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 On 2019-06-29 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 On 2019-06-12 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 On 2019-05-08 “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 On 2019-04-23 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 On 2019-04-22 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? On 2019-04-10 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 On 2019-04-01 Paper-based diagnostic tests are cheap, convenient and biodegradable. However, their use is limited by conventional dyes — which are not […]