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FDA to Create a Digital Health Unit

The FDA has announced that it is forming a digital health unit within the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). The digital health unit will develop software and technical expertise to assist manufacturers with devices that incorporate digital health technologies, as well as assessing digital health improvements and monitoring and reporting on the digital...

February 21, 2017
By Rita King
IEC 62304, Life Science Software, Risk Management

Cybersecurity’s Impact on Health Systems

We are currently seeing significant technological advances in medical devices, hospital networks and patient care. As medical devices become increasingly interconnected via the Internet, hospital networks, other medical devices, and smartphones, there is an increased risk of exploitation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities, some of which could affect a device’s performance, functionality and safety to the patient....

Colliding Cultures: Software Development and the Medical Device Industry

Part 1 – Medical Device Software, the FDA and the US Congress Preface: In any given 2-week period, an average of 15% to 20% of the applications on my smartphone have new versions to fix software bugs. Others I speak with experience similar statistics. And, that doesn’t include how often my smartphone software crashes while...

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FDA to Create a Digital Health Unit

Cybersecurity’s Impact on Health Systems

Colliding Cultures: Software Development and the Medical Device Industry

Cybersecurity – A Real Threat to Medical Devices