Medical Devices

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Clinovo White Papers Published In Summer 2014 Editions Of Leading Medical Device & Pharmaceutical Publications

Press Release | Clinovo | July 29, 2014

White papers by Clinovo on CDISC Standards for medical devices and cloud-based eClinical technologies have been published in the latest editions of leading pharmaceutical publications Data Basics and Med Device Online...

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Coming Next: Using an App as Prescribed

Joshua Brustein | New York Times | August 19, 2012

Before long, your doctor may be telling you to download two apps and call her in the morning. Smartphone apps already fill the roles of television remotes, bike speedometers and flashlights. Soon they may also act as medical devices, helping patients monitor their heart rate or manage their diabetes, and be paid for by insurance.

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Computer Viruses Are "Rampant" On Medical Devices In Hospitals

David Talbot | MIT Technology Review | October 17, 2012

A meeting of government officials reveals that medical equipment is becoming riddled with malware. Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Announces Changes To Board Of Directors

Press Release | Continua Health Alliance | October 25, 2012

Continua Health Alliance today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed two new members, effective August 2012, to serve a one year term. [...] Continua is the international industry organization dedicated to advancing personal connected health by promoting end-to-end, plug-and-play connectivity of personal health devices and establishing industry standards for interoperability. Read More »

Continua Lauds FDA's Medical Device Interoperability Standards

Chuck Parker | mHealth News | August 15, 2013

Reviewing media coverage of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s recent announcement that it will recognize standards for medical device interoperability could give a misleading impression that the measure is of little importance. [...] Read More »

Crowdfunding The Next Medical Cure

Mohana Ravindranath | The Washington Post | July 8, 2013

Creating a new medical device is not an inexpensive exercise. There are development costs, clinical trial expenses, and the lengthy process of getting a piece of new equipment approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Read More »

Department Of Veterans Affairs Standardizes On CenTrak's Clinical-Grade Real-Time Location System™ (RTLS) To Improve Operational Efficiency And Quality Of Veteran Care

Press Release | CenTrak | March 4, 2013

CenTrak today announced the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has chosen its active-RTLS infrastructure to location-enable all of the VA's hospitals, clinics and consolidated mail outpatient pharmacies as a subcontractor to HP. Read More »

Device Interoperability Effort Seeks Hospital Leaders

Ken Terry | InformationWeek | September 24, 2013

Center for Medical Interoperability, funded by the Gary and Mary West Foundation, aims to solve incompatibilities between medical devices and health IT systems. Read More »

DIY Healthcare: Going Beyond WebMD

Alex Wukman | Consumer Media Network | August 15, 2012

Despite all the hoopla about the Affordable Care Act, and what it will mean for the U.S., the fundamental experience of going to the doctor hasn’t changed and while innovation and experimentation are inherent to the field of medicine, they aren’t as common in how healthcare is delivered. Read More »

Doctors And Hospitals Got At Least $3.5 Billion From Industry In Just Five Months

Julia Belluz | Vox | September 30, 2014

...Lawsuits in recent years revealed that doctors' relationships with industry can alter their prescribing practices and decision-making for the worse, and pharmaceutical companies have paid out billions of dollars in fines for fraudulent marketing practices...

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Doctors Promoting Treatments on Social Media Routinely Fail to Disclose Ties to Drug Makers

Sheila Kaplan | STAT | February 29, 2016

Physicians across the United States routinely offer medical advice on social media — but often fail to mention that they have accepted tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars from the companies that make the prescription drugs they tout. A STAT examination of hundreds of social media accounts shows that health care professionals virtually never note their conflicts of interest, some of them significant, when promoting drugs or medical devices on sites such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. The practice cuts across all specialties...

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Dutch Healthcare Trade Group To Validate Open Source Solutions

The Dutch Association of Research Quality Assurance (DARQA), a trade group representing about 600 health care institutions and suppliers, will assist in validating open source software solutions for use in health care. Approved solutions will be given so-called vendor compliance statements, asserting compliance with European and global health care ICT standards. DARQA hopes to endorse hospital information systems, document management tools, archiving solutions and software for data analysis.

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e-Health Project In Malaysia To Monitor Medical Drug Preservation With Waspmote

Alberto Bielsa | Libelium | January 20, 2012

Medical drugs are very expensive, in special vaccines and others that need to be stored at a specific temperature. Therefore, real-time monitoring is vital to control whether the cold chain has been broken or not. Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are capable of getting temperature, humidity or luminosity measurements and transmit the data to a remote server periodically. In this way, real-time conditions can be monitored in order to know when a problem in a freezer or a refrigerator happens, avoiding critical situations and saving a huge amount of money.

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Economist, Why so Pessimistic about Open Source Medical Devices Software?

medicaldeviceslegal | Erik Vollebregt | June 11, 2012

I read an interesting article in the Economist’s Technology Quarterly of June 2nd-8th of 2012, p. 17-18, on open source medical devices software. Let me summarise for you: the article starts by showing all the benefits of medical devices software that is developed using open source models, and there are many...The article concludes however that open source has no place in the current regulatory environment and points only to FDA regulation for that conclusion. Read More »

ECRI Institute Releases Top 10 Health Technology Hazards Report For 2013

Press Release | ECRI Institute | November 5, 2012

While today’s health technology advances provide countless new ways to improve patient care, some also create new opportunities for harm.  And with the evolution of healthcare information technology systems such as electronic health records (EHRs), there’s a growing level of complexity and opportunity for error.

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