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MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong has made a name for himself as the world’s richest doctor and a controversial figure in medicine, but he’s also a fearless visionary.
He has gotten himself into hot water when reality didn’t match up to his promises, but he’s also sparked a lot of interest from healthcare providers around the country who are interested in his prescription for how to fix healthcare.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Beleaguered smartphone maker BlackBerry (NSDQ:BBRY) is diving headlong into digital health with a new smartphone platform focused on medical professionals.
Blackberry allied with NantHealth, which makes medical device interoperability systems, to develop a service platform designed to aggregate data from thousands of devices in order to generate insight into the spread of disease.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — A growing number of hospitals in the U.S. are working with manufacturers to train staff to take over tasks usually done by a company sales rep.
The effort is a dramatic shift in the long-standing relationship between healthcare providers and manufacturers, but hospitals hope it will lower their costs and diminish industry influence in healthcare.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Some major healthcare industry players are looking to the FDA to provide more robust surveillance of medical devices on the U.S. market.
The group asked the FDA to look over a handful of recommendations for boosting medtech registries to gather more robust information about devices that have already been approved or cleared, saying that such measures could track safety issues.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — In what has become a stream of high-profile healthcare hacks, federal officials revealed this week that even their healthcare systems are not immune.
There’s no sign that the intruders stole any private information since they only accessed a test server for the Healthcare.gov website, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Cyber-attacks on healthcare systems have grown at an "unprecedented" rate over the last year, according to security experts.
Healthcare data systems have long been a security concern, especially because personal medical records fetch a greater price on the internet’s black markets than credit card information. Hospitals and other healthcare systems have also been largely behind the curve in cybersecurity.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Medicare regulators are hoping to clear a backlog of reimbursement appeals by offering hospitals 68¢ on the dollar to drop their efforts.
If accepted by hospitals, the deal could help the agency work its way out of growing controversy and litigation about the delays that hospitals have faced in appealing rejected claims for inpatient reimbursement, Law360.com reported.
