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RSNA 2023: Hospital imaging systems may be gateways for ransomware, expert warns

Health Imaging

Cybersecurity consultant Richard Staynings argued legacy medical devices are inherently insecure—and likely to remain in hospitals for decades to come.

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AI in Hospitals: A Journey of Discovery, Depth and Deployment

Aidoc

With that in mind, there comes an array of things to consider as it relates to AI what it does at the level of clinical care: What does AI help hospitals accomplish right now? To date, the FDA has over 850 AI/ML-enabled medical devices listed on its website. How will AI fit into my hospital in the long term?

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FDA clears inHeart’s digital twin of the heart

AuntMinnie

France-based medical device developer inHeart has received clearance from the U.S. While the software has been commercially available to clinicians in Europe, FDA clearance now allows inHEART to market the product to hospitals across the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AI-driven digital twin of the heart.

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Polarean closes on $12.6M funding round

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Polarean Imaging , a commercial-stage medical device developer for lung MRI, has closed a $12.6 Polarean said it recently received its next de novo order of a Xenoview polarizer from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Hospital. The funding was co-led by Nukem Isotopes GmbH and Bracco S.p.A.,

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Philips Announces New Interoperability Capabilities That Offer a Comprehensive View of Patient Health for Improved Monitoring and Care Coordination

Imaging Technology

As a world leader monitoring more than 600 million patients each year worldwide, Philips is creating an open patient monitoring ecosystem to bring together disparate medical devices and systems on a single interface. Every day, clinicians make countless care decisions based on information from divided medical devices and systems.

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ACR responds to Congressional query on AI reimbursement

AuntMinnie

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has also provided some reimbursement through Category I codes and the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS). It remains unclear, however, that all reimbursed uses are currently adding value to patients or the health system, Thorwarth said.

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Deep-learning model predicts bone density on chest x-rays

AuntMinnie

If this deep-learning model becomes available as a medical device, chest x-rays taken in a variety of settings, such as medical examinations, checkups, and hospitals, could be used to screen for osteoporosis,” Sato and colleagues suggest. The model achieved 79% accuracy, 96.6% sensitivity, and 34.1% accuracy, 77.1%

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