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Trends, characteristics of health data breaches

Editor’s Note Despite ethical and legal obligations to protect patient privacy and efforts to establish best practices for healthcare information security, breach rates have increased since 2010, this study finds. Of 2,149 breaches that involved…

Judy Mathias | October 2 2018 2:24 pm

FDA announces framework for strengthening medical device cybersecurity

Editor’s Note The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on October 1 released a "Playbook," developed by the Medical Device ...

Cynthia Saver, MS, RN | September 20 2018 1:10 am

New service lines can create opportunities for ORs

As hospital administrators face shrinking operating margins, OR leaders are being called upon to create innovative approaches for boosting ...

Judy Mathias | September 12 2018 1:41 pm

FDA takes steps to address cybersecurity concerns of medical devices

Editor’s Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has taken steps to ensure that medical device manufacturers do as much as ...

Judy Mathias | September 11 2018 1:04 pm

Creating standardized process for training new surgeons in robotic surgery

Editor’s Note Automated performance metrics can distinguish surgeon expertise during anastomoses and create an objective, ...

Susan Klacik, BS, CRCST, CHL, CIS, ACE, FCS | August 21 2018 1:05 am

Validate and verify medical devices to ensure safety

Sometimes surgeons ask to have nonmedical devices sterilized, such as spoons, hockey pucks, and fish hooks. Healthcare staff may want to ...

Judy Mathias | August 1 2018 1:46 pm

Survey: 49% of adults worry about healthcare data security

Editor’s Note In a survey of more than 2,000 US adults, The Harris Poll on behalf of healthcare marketing firm Scout found that ...

Bill Codifying Federal Role in ICS Cybersecurity Clears House

A bill codifying the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) role in addressing industrial control systems (ICS) cybersecurity has cleared the U.S. House of Representatives. While H.R. 5733, “DHS Industrial Control Systems Capabilities Enhancement Act,” contains no…

Judy Mathias | June 22 2018 1:24 pm

Robot-assisted vs open cystectomy

Editor’s Note Robot-assisted and open cystectomies are equally effective in treating bladder cancer, this 7-year study finds. ...

Janet M. Boivin, BSN, BSJ, RN | June 20 2018 1:00 am

Cybersecurity should be high on healthcare priority lists

No homeowners willingly allow a burglar to enter their home and steal their most valuable possessions. Instead, people put locks on doors, ...

Judy Mathias | June 12 2018 2:24 pm

Machine-learning algorithm predicts hypotension during surgery

Editor’s Note In this study, researchers at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles applied machine learning to arterial pressure ...

Sonal Patel | May 1 2018 4:05 pm

FAA Initiative Highlights Best Practices for Flying Drones BVLOS

A three-year-long initiative spearheaded by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in collaboration with industry has yielded a ...

Judy Mathias | February 14 2018 1:21 pm

FDA permits marketing of software to alert providers of potential strokes in patients

Editor’s Note The Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on February 13 announced that it is permitting the marketing of clinical ...

Susan London | December 14 2017 1:05 am

Robotics: Building a winning business case

Robotic-assisted surgery offers many potential advantages, including shorter operative time, less morbidity, and faster patient recovery. ...

Surgical robot market poised for growth

Editor’s Note A Meddevicetracker analysis expects the global market for robotically assisted surgical devices to see an 11.7% compound annual growth rate, reaching $5.3 billon by 2021, the November 10 Medtech Insight reports The market…

Judy Mathias | October 18 2017 1:13 pm

FDA clears new surgical robot

Editor’s Note The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on October 13 cleared the Senhance System (TransEnterix Surgical Inc, ...

Judy Mathias | October 12 2017 1:39 pm

New app helps protect patients’ brains during surgery

Editor’s Note A new app developed by students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's (UWM's) App Brewery and a ...

Judy Mathias | October 11 2017 12:11 pm

Data analytics tops list of challenges for healthcare execs in 2018

Editor’s Note In a survey from the HealthCare Executive Group, clinical and data analytics was was the top of 10 challenges the ...

Judy Mathias | September 25 2017 12:49 pm

Nearly a third of consumers lack easy access to medical records

Editor’s Note An Ambra Health survey found that 31% of more than 1,100 healthcare consumers were not able to easily access their ...

Judy Mathias | September 13 2017 4:32 pm

FDA to staff new digital health unit

The FDA has officially kicked off a hiring process to fill more than a dozen positions within the agency's new ...

OR Manager | August 22 2017 1:20 am

Ransomware attacks: How to protect your medical device systems

Ransomware is a form of computer malware used to make data, software, and information technology (IT) assets unavailable to users. It uses ...

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