DHSC outlines plans to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices
Earlier this week, the Department of Health and Social Care announced its plan to tackle ethnic and other biases in medical devices.
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Digital Health Coffee Time Briefing ☕
Today’s briefing covers a pioneering health and care apprenticeship program in East Anglia and Qure.ai announcing its 13th FDA clearance.
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ivWatch uses algorithm to reduce injuries from faulty intravenous lines
Extravasation can cause serious and sometimes lasting injuries. An American company, ivWatch, is piloting a product to lessen the risk.
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Govt mandate to NHSE calls for trusts to adopt barcode scanning by 2024
The government has mandated that all trusts across England should adopt barcode scanning of high-risk medical devices by March 2024.
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Government calls for evidence on discrimination in medical devices
The government has launched a call for evidence to discover if and how medical devices and technologies may discriminate and widen healthcare inequalities.
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University Hospitals of North Midlands deploys Ordr cyber security solution
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust has chosen Ordr to provide a new cyber security solution that will improve patient safety.
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Cyber security news round-up
Our latest round-up of cyber security nibs includes a cyber-attack on the Labour party and Marie Stopes achieving Cyber Essentials Plus Certification.
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Encryption standards for medical devices ‘need to be mandatory’
Pangea Connected’s system developer, Dr Arslan Usman, said IoT medical devices need to be better regulated to boost cyber security efforts.
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Special Report: Medical Devices
Medical devices are a ubiquitous part of modern day healthcare – blood pressure monitors, infusion pumps, spirometers, the list goes on – and increasingly digital rather than analogue. Traditionally the data such devices collect has been held in something resembling isolation, but the growth of electronic patient records and data analytics holds the promise of being able to harness this information in a new way. Maja Dragovic reports.
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Cyber security news round-up
Digital Health’s latest news round-up from the cyber security industry includes updates on the 2016 National Lottery hack and June’s Ticketmaster breach.
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