Medical devices need security
With the advent of technology, wireless electric medical devices are getting sleeker and smarter, but their security and privacy features are lagging behind.
With the advent of technology, wireless electric medical devices are getting sleeker and smarter, but their security and privacy features are lagging behind.
Managing patient-monitoring equipment typically used for measuring patients’ heart rate, blood pressure and other vital signs goes far beyond simple inventory control, to include the need to ensure inspection, calibration, self-test results and safety upgrades, while minimizing down time.
Carestream Health has received orders to install four Platinum remote-controlled radiology tables at the University Hospital in Grenoble and the General Hospital in Antibes.
Researchers warn that hackers could gain access and remotely control medical devices that transmit wireless signals, such as insulin pumps, pacemakers and cardiac defibrillators.
To help finance high-end medical devices for patients, the Medical technology company Medtronic has come up with affordable projects.
A pair of nanotechnology-enabled devices that capture cells in the blood which have broken off from a tumour have been developed by researchers in the US.
As Noval methods of blood glucose monitoring and uation have enabled treatment adjustments that would not have been made on the basis of intermittent finger prick readings, thus dramatically improving the quality of the lives of millions of diabetics around the world.
Three new fat removal technologies that are awaiting approval from the US Food and Drug Administration should be available to patients by 2011.
A report by Research and Markets says that the global market for endoscopy devices is estimated to exceed $6.5bn by 2016.
A report by Global Industry Analysts say that the global market for ECG telemetry devices is estimated to reach $1.1bn by 2015.
The European Commission will develop less invasive, less expensive, and safer devices to treat conditions such as varicose veins and abdominal aortic aneurysms under the Heart-e-Gel project.
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has launched a new initiative to improve the safety of complex home-use medical devices such as hemodialysis systems, wound care and intravenous therapy devices.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken steps to strengthen the approval process for radiotherapy devices following multiple errors. In a letter to the device manufacturers, the FDA identified issues from recent analysis of more than 1,000 reports of errors, which could be fixed by incorporating additional safeguards.