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CHAI Model Card
By Andrea Fox | 11:03 am | January 09, 2025
The Coalition for Health AI is offering its Applied Model Card artificial intelligence transparency tool on GitHub to build "the kind of trust that we need," says its CEO Dr. Brian Anderson.
Doctors reviewing data on a digital tablet
By Adam Ang | 01:04 am | January 09, 2025
Healthcare providers and IT vendors in the region have weighed in with their predictions for healthcare technology in the new year.
Left hand wearing a pulse oximeter
By Andrea Fox | 11:23 am | January 07, 2025
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has published updated draft recommendations to help improve the performance of pulse oximeters across skin tones.
Developers around a table with documents discussing product life cycles
By Andrea Fox | 11:00 am | January 06, 2025
After resolving how it will review updates to previously approved artificial intelligence-enabled medical devices, the agency will release its full draft proposal for market submissions.
Cybersecurity lock digital abstract
By Christopher Frenz | 10:59 am | May 23, 2024
Cyberattackers have been shifting to strategies where legitimate tools commonly installed on desktops and servers are abused for malicious purposes. To fight back, knowledge is power.
By Michael Marshall | 01:45 pm | August 12, 2022
NGITS are versatile, adaptable infrastructures and engineering/operations that can incorporate new mission-advancing technologies and business processes into the enterprise as they emerge in a thoughtful, integrated way.
COVID-19, contact tracing, vaccine
By Saif Abed | 02:08 am | January 13, 2021
For many of us, 2021 feels a lot like 2020 with lockdowns imposed and hospital pressures increasing. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel with several vaccines now being rolled out globally, says Dr Saif Abed, founding partner, AbedGraham.
By Sean Burke | 04:12 pm | March 30, 2020
The weaknesses highlighted by the FDA in Urgent/11 demonstrate there are susceptibilities within software platforms that are both identifiable and resolvable.
Ransomware and medical devices: How behavior analytics can protect patients
Security
By William Scandrett | 04:51 pm | August 16, 2019
Medical devices must be managed from a security perspective, but also from an operational perspective. Using analytics to establish behavior baselines helps support risk assessments, find malfunctions and enhance staff productivity.
Cybersecurity command center.
The device landscape in the healthcare sector is growing exponentially, adding to the complexity of the network, and making it challenging for IT and security personnel to remain compliant and enforce patient safety and privacy. To better understand the complexity of healthcare networks and potential vulnerabilities, Forescout research analyzed 75 healthcare deployments with over 1.5 million devices.