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A Concerning Gap in Cybersecurity for Medical Technology

Health Populi

This concerning finding was confirmed in recent observations from Gartner, which wrote in a market trends report that, “generally, medical devices are not replaced for at least ten years, with many running old software that has not been updated or patched.”

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Withings Acquires Impeto Medical to Strengthen and Grow Its Research and Development of Medical Technologies

Healthcare IT Today

Leader in the tracking of peripheral neuropathies, acquired by pioneers of connected health Withings, the pioneer of the connected health movement, has announced the acquisition of Impeto Medical, a specialist in R&D, manufacturing and distribution of innovative medical devices for physicians.

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Hacking Health Care, Your Top Health-Tech Summer Read

Health Populi

Health citizens deserve Tom’s vision to emerge,” I wrote in a quote on the back of Tom’s new book, Hacking Health Care: How AI and the Intelligence Revolution Will Reboot an Ailing System.

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Designing Digital Health for Public Health Preparedness and Equity: the Consumer Tech Association Doubles Down

Health Populi

Health data and privacy considerations, especially due to varying state laws that fragment a Federal/national approach to personal data protection. These barriers are an underlying theme in CTA’s paper on advancing health equity through technology, sponsored by CTA and the App Association’s Connected Health Initiative (ACT).

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What Person-Centered Interoperability Looks Like: Seqster

Health Populi

He had me at the statement, “I believe health data is medicine.”. Those were the words of Ardy Arianpour, CEO and Co-Founder of Seqster, when sharing with me how his company was founded.

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IoT and The Rise of the Machines in Healthcare

Health Populi

As connected devices proliferate within health care enterprises and across the health care ecosystem, cybersecurity risks abound.

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A Health Future with Lyft and Uber as Patient Data Stewards: Rock Health’s 2019 Consumer Survey

Health Populi

.” Clearly, with the rumors this week that Google may be looking to acquire Fitbit , Google Health would continue to grow its data mine massively through that transaction. And, as Cerner announced its collaboration with Uber Health this week, we see a health IT company expanding beyond what an EHR could be.