By Naomi Fried
Naomi Fried, PhD, is Boston Children’s Hospital’s first Chief Innovation Officer and a founder of the hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program. She tweets @NaomiFried.
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By Naomi Fried
Naomi Fried, PhD, is Boston Children’s Hospital’s first Chief Innovation Officer and a founder of the hospital’s Innovation Acceleration Program. She tweets @NaomiFried.
GE Healthcare (NYSE:GE) issued a field correction on certain of its Avance, Avance CS2 and Aisys anesthesia delivery systems, warning that they need a software update to avoid a potential safety issue.
GE Healthcare this month handed its Centricity Laboratory Division over to Cirdan Ultra, an subsidiary of Ireland-based Cirdan Imaging Limited, which acquired the intellectual property and assets together with compatriot Kainos Software.
By Tom Ulrich
At the start of today’s National Pediatric Innovation Summit + Awards 2013 panel on patient engagement, healthcare journalist Carey Goldberg offered up a personal anecdote about engagement – or the lack of it – in medical care:
The FDA has made medical device cybersecurity a high priority, even as it stresses that there have been no reported incidents of malicious medical device hacks or of patients harmed by a security-related issue.
InVivoLink drummed up $1.9 million from 3 investors in a recent equity financing round, according to documents filed with the SEC. The recent $1.9 million is the 2nd wave of an initial funding promise from investors, set to kick in after InVivoLink achieved certain milestones, according to CEO Ryan Wells.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — During the 1st 3 years of Affordable Care Act implementation, the Obama administration has failed to meet half of its mandatory deadlines, according to a new report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service.
Natus Medical (NSDQ:BABY) landed regulatory wins from the FDA and Health Canada for its UltraPro S100 EMG, a new electro-diagnostic system designed to monitor a patient’s nervous and muscular systems.
Regulators and healthcare providers are developing tools and standards to assess medical devices and their digital defenses, as medtech cybersecurity takes some giant steps from the theoretical to the practical.
I’ve written many blog posts about our efforts along the path to ICD-10 that will enhance our inpatient clinical documentation. We’re hard at work planning the improvements we think are foundational to support care coordination, compliance, and quality measurement goals.