DHHS OIG Work Plan Targets Networked Devices
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S Department of Health and Human Services has released a report (pdf) outlining its 2015 work plan. Among a host of subjects is “Information Technology Security, Protected Health Information, and Data Accuracy” with the subsection “Controls over networked medical devices at hospitals”. The focus here is on the security of patient electronic health information which is to be protected under law. Other risks associated with device networking are not addressed.
The relevant subsection (page 22) is relatively brief:
We will examine whether CMS overs...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - November 10, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: William Hyman Tags: connectivity Healthcare IT Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
Two post docs in Philly
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Noninvasive Brain Stimulation in Neurorehabilitation and Aphasia Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS), University of PennsylvaniaA postdoctoral fellowship is available in the Laboratory for Cognition and Neural Stimulation (LCNS) under the direction of Roy Hamilton, MD, MS, a behavioral neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn). The central thrust of work in the LCNS is to use electrical and magnetic noninvasive brain stimulation to explore the characteristics and limits of functional plasticity in the intact and injured adult human brain. The principle NIH-grant...
Source: Talking Brains - September 26, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Review of the 2014 ESC Sessions in Barcelona
Hey Everyone,
Me at Park Guell
It’s been a few days since I returned home from Spain. The jet leg has resolved and normal sleep patterns have returned. I’ve had time to review the entire ESC program book. What follows is a review of my work and some notes on the past week in Barcelona.
The first thing to say about the European Society of Cardiology sessions is its massiveness. The convention site is huge; it’s streaming with people and technology. The press room stretched for more than a hundred meters while more than 500 journalists from all over the world jostled for desk space and power outlets, which ...
Source: Dr John M - September 7, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr John Source Type: blogs
Biomedical engineering: advancing UK healthcare
This report argues that boosting the number, as well as the influence, of engineers in the NHS would help cut the number of incidents caused by faulty medical equipment. It calls for for urgent action to prioritise the role of engineers in the NHS, and introduce a Chief Biomedical Engineer in every NHS acute trust.
Report
Press release (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - July 25, 2014 Category: UK Health Authors: The King's Fund Information & Knowledge Service Tags: Patient safety Workforce and employment Source Type: blogs
Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma Read more: Clot-building nanoparticles raise survival rate following blast trauma
A type of artificial platelet being developed to help natural blood platelets form clots faster offers promise for saving the lives of soldiers, as well as victims of car crashes and other severe trauma.In preclinical tests led by a Case Western Reserve University researcher, the artificial platelets, called "hemostatic nanoparticles," when injected after blast trauma dramatically increased survival rates and showed no signs of interfering with healing or causing other complications weeks afterward."The nanoparticles have a huge impact on survival—not just in the short term, but in the long term," said Erin Lavik, an ass...
Source: Medical Hemostat - June 30, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: hemostatguy at gmail.com (hemostat guy) Source Type: blogs
Chief Scientific Officer bulletin: June 2014
Publications gateway number: 01694
Professor Sue Hill OBE, Chief Scientific Officer
One of the determining features of any profession is its commitment to professionalism and standards.
We know from a series of reports into the NHS, including Francis, Keogh, Berwick and Barnes, that professional expertise alone is not sufficient to ensure we deliver good care. It is not just about what we do, but how we do our work that matters.
This is why the 6C’s initiative is being rolled out across all the professional groups of the NHS and Healthcare Scientists should embrace this wholeheartedly.
Whether working in a patient facing...
Source: Fade Library - June 9, 2014 Category: Databases & Libraries Authors: NHS England Tags: bulletin Chief scientific officer Chief Scientific Officer bulletin CSO Home News Source Type: blogs
UVa creates virtual bacteria to shed light on cystic fibrosis infections
The two species of bacteria are genetically similar – both contagious, both drug resistant, both preying upon people with cystic fibrosis or weakened immune systems – yet they go about their sinister work very differently. There is much to be learned both from how they are alike and how they differ, and so researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine have recreated them in electronic form, building an elaborate computer model of each so that scientists can better understand them, better compare them and find new and better ways to stop them.
The new metabolic model lets scientists examine Burkholderia c...
Source: Cystic Fibrosis Worldwide Blog - April 24, 2014 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Webmaster Tags: Research and Discovery Source Type: blogs
Graduate Student or Post-doctoral Fellow with Dr. Deryk Beal – Neurodevelopment of speech motor control
Supervisor: Dr. Deryk BealDr. Deryk Beal, principal investigator and founder of the Speech Neurogenetics Laboratory at the University of Alberta, invites applications for a WCHRI (http://wchri.srv.ualberta.ca/) funded position in the areas of developmental cognitive neuroscience, speech motor control and their related underlying genetic contributions.Dr. Beal is interested in advancing our understanding of the genetic and neural contributions to speech motor control in typically developing children and adults as well as children and adults with developmental stuttering and other motor speech disorders. My laboratory is equ...
Source: Talking Brains - March 21, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Neil Rens and Krzysztof Sitko of the Tricorder XPRIZE Team Aezon Talk With Medgadget
With the Qualifying Round of the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition only a few months away, we had a chance to catch up with Aezon, a Johns Hopkins-based team vying for a position in the Final Round of the competition. One of the younger teams in the competition, Aezon has already spun out a start-up, Aegle, representing one component of their three-pronged approach. We had the chance to speak with Neil Rens and Krzysztof Sitko, two of the fifteen members on the team, about their project and how it’s going.
Michael Batista, Medgadget: I know many of our readers have been following the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE ...
Source: Medgadget - February 28, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: Michael Batista Tags: Medgadget Exclusive Source Type: blogs
Medicine for Managers and Entrepreneurs at MIT
I was pleased to be invited by Dr. Richard J. Cohen, Whitaker Professor in Biomedical Engineering, to address a new class he is offering at MIT, called "Medicine for Managers and Entrepreneurs." The goal of the course is to teach a bit about medicine to individuals who have a career interest in starting or managing a biomedical company. The students in the course are a mix of MBA students and graduate students in various science and engineering departments at MIT.As always, I promised (threatened?) students who asked good questions or gave good answers that they might end up on this blog. I don't have room ...
Source: Running a hospital - February 22, 2014 Category: Health Managers Source Type: blogs
Legislation Seeks to Deregulate Medical Software
Introduced in the House back in October was the wittily named Sensible Oversight for Technology which Advances Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013 which has the acronym SOFTWARE. Not to be outdone on the creation of legislative acronyms, now comes the Senate version with a bill entitled Preventing Regulatory Overreach To Enhance Care Technology, which of course gives us PROTECT. Both of these bills seek to define and sub-define medically related software, and then to take part of what they have defined away from the FDA, and do something else with it that has not yet been clearly identified.
The premise of these bills is t...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - February 17, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: William Hyman Tags: Standards & Regulatory Source Type: blogs
Have You Read a Disclaimer Lately?
Some time ago Tim Gee pointed out that a major vendor for an in hospital communication system included the following statement in its documentation:
“This product is not intended for use with patient monitoring devices or other patient care devices. Do not use this product as the primary communications tool in health care environments, as it may use an unregulated frequency band that is susceptible to interference from other devices or equipment.”
Of course “primary communication” was exactly why the product was being purchased, and arguably what it was being sold for.
When discussing Clinical Decis...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - January 7, 2014 Category: Technology Consultants Authors: William Hyman Tags: Healthcare IT Source Type: blogs
Unfolding the secrets of Inter nodal pathways !
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Biomedical Engineering: Then and Now
The old and the new of saving lives with biomedical engineering are coming together to help patients with cancer.Contributor: Eve OrionPublished: Nov 30, 2013 (Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content)
Source: Most Recent Health Wellness - Associated Content - November 30, 2013 Category: Other Conditions Source Type: blogs
