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The Rising Trends in Medical Devices for Superior Care Quality
Emerging Healthcare Trends
Intense competition in the healthcare industry has forced healthcare providers to look for new ways to offer superior care quality. Since traditional methods of healthcare service have proven to be inadequate, the healthcare industry today is embracing new and innovative technology in order to better patient health and well-being:
Healthcare Apps: Medical apps are revolutionizing the healthcare landscape by seamlessly connecting patients and doctors with medical information. A majority of healthcare apps are being developed with varied capabilities like real time monitoring and high-resolution imaging that can be used to monitor and improve patient health. Today, healthcare apps allow people to receive care anytime and from anywhere in the world, making healthcare more accessible to patients.
Medical Sensors: Another technical trend that is picking up pace is the implementation of medical sensors. Rising healthcare costs have compelled healthcare providers to gather medical data from real-time sensors in order to improve the decision making process. Creating top-notch algorithms and a visually appealing interface for these sensors has become a priority for medical device solution providers.
Health-specific Social Networks: The rising success and popularity of social networks can be leveraged to deliver quality health-care services to patients. By collaborating with people suffering from similar health conditions, patients and practitioners can connect with each other on social networks and form relations, and ask questions, thereby empowering patients to play an active role in their personal wellbeing.
The Need for Modern Technology
The healthcare industry consists of a varied assortment of professionals who directly or indirectly provide healthcare: from doctors and clinicians to pharmaceutics, administrators, managers, marketers, lab assistants, and more. With so many people part of the chain, there is also the challenge of dealing with enormous amounts of unstructured and cluttered data; data that is related to patients medical history, diagnosis, clinical-trials, treatments, and medicines, in addition to clerical, and research & administrative data. Moreover, this critical data resides in numerous places like physicians notes, lab reports, PCs, enterprise systems etc. Collecting and making sense of this data is not only time consuming but also fruitless. This mandates the need for modern technology that can be leveraged to make better-quality decisions which in turn lead to superior healthcare. Medical device solution companies also need to cater to a wide range of business needs such as interoperability between various stakeholders, a distributed network, mobile customers, healthcare standards, and legal guidelines.
Medical Device Solutions
Several medical device players have been in business, embracing trends around miniaturization, portability, connectivity, consistency and affordability of medical devices. Companies with hands-on engineering experience in FDA Class 2 and Class 3 devices help in monitoring, diagnostics, analysis, imaging, wearable health and telemedicine for medical applications. HIPAA compliant engineering solutions, and process expertise in IEC 60601-1/2/6, IEC 62304, 510K and ISO 1348 enable these companies to develop medical products through the lifecycle: from concept and architecture definition to prototyping, field trials, certification and sustenance engineering. Whats more, medical device and clinical software solutions for mobility enablement that are integrated with cloud infrastructure for remote diagnosis and ease of access is helping medical institutions offer superior quality care from anywhere and at any time. Some of the major services that software companies are offering in the medical space include:
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) management and sustenance
Web, cloud and mobility enablement with EMR integration
Medical imaging algorithm implementation on GPU and DSP platforms
Wireless integration with Bluetooth, ZigBee, Wi-Fi, NFC, and 2G/3G/4G technologies
Medical device miniaturization, localization, re-engineering and obsolescence management
Mechanical and enclosure design with CAD/CAM modeling
Low-power design for wearable health devices
FDA/FCC/CE/UL certification support
Better Quality Care
With modern healthcare facilities at their fingertips, healthcare institutes can now offer better-quality care and improve the overall well-being of patients. Medical apps, mobile solutions, wireless integration, device miniaturization and wearable healthcare devices are gradually being embraced, leading to comprehensive and efficient patient healthcare.
How hackers taking advantage of Internet of Things
The latest technology, IoT is going to take the world by storm. This awesome money and time-saving trick to virtually monitor devices in your household is showing some promising signs. Once it hits our everyday life, it will be more than just productivity-boosting. Their are many pros and cons of this latest technology. But, benefits of this technology are ceaseless. And the one thing that rises above all-is that comfy, warm sense of being connected to your home things wherever you go. Internet of Things is all about the safety that comes with the associated apps.
Or… is it?
Our planet already has enough mess accumulated by technology. According to the Forbes, a whopping number of 30,000 computers are hacked every day. Whether the sob story is – Sony’s hacking Scandal or Jennifer Lawrence’s outrageous photo-leaks, privacy breach is nothing new to hit headlines.
But the safety hazards associated with Internet of Things didn’t discourage David Carmon, Britain’s Prime Minister to promise £45 million to IoT’s future. But Edith Ramirez of Federal Trade Commission, USA, aired the data security concerns that IoT inevitably brings and she warns “Any device that is connected to the Internet is at risk of being hijacked.”
Considering National Security Agency spying leaks, letting Internet steer the wheel of your household appliances is another way of sending a welcome note to government surveillance agencies (or worse, hackers who do it for fun), to monitor what’s on your plate for dinner this evening. Just as shown in the TV series Homeland, terrorists are capable of hacking even a pacemaker.
A fitness-tracking smartwatch, the one that counts your step or heartbeat, can be tampered with. Symantec Corporation has carried out research that confirms so. Make sure when you use IoT as security footage or baby monitor, isn’t being used to stalk your move. The other devises that are susceptible to such intrusion are Smart TVs, Baby monitors, USB, Routers and even toilets!
It is predicated that cutting-edge IoT solutions have already started to materialise at a rapid rate replacing the traditional customized solutions. It is to historically alter consumer habits and trends. No matter what security challenges they involve, business Internet of Things connections are expected to reach 5.4 billion in 5 years. According to Verizon Inc., organizations that do not switch to IoT-based solutions will lag behind by at least 10% less profit by 2025.
The security of Internet of Things depends on the data encryption during transmission. It will take true grits of manufacturers and careful consideration of computer scientists to ward off evils lurking behind the smart LEDs and unassuming webcams. Or else, IoT will be our 21st century’s cross to bear.
How hackers taking advantage of Internet of Things
The latest technology, IoT is going to take the world by storm. This awesome money and time-saving trick to virtually monitor devices in your household is showing some promising signs. Once it hits our everyday life, it will be more than just productivity-boosting. Their are many pros and cons of this latest technology. But, benefits of this technology are ceaseless. And the one thing that rises above all-is that comfy, warm sense of being connected to your home things wherever you go. Internet of Things is all about the safety that comes with the associated apps.
Or… is it?
Our planet already has enough mess accumulated by technology. According to the Forbes, a whopping number of 30,000 computers are hacked every day. Whether the sob story is – Sony’s hacking Scandal or Jennifer Lawrence’s outrageous photo-leaks, privacy breach is nothing new to hit headlines.
But the safety hazards associated with Internet of Things didn’t discourage David Carmon, Britain’s Prime Minister to promise £45 million to IoT’s future. But Edith Ramirez of Federal Trade Commission, USA, aired the data security concerns that IoT inevitably brings and she warns “Any device that is connected to the Internet is at risk of being hijacked.”
Considering National Security Agency spying leaks, letting Internet steer the wheel of your household appliances is another way of sending a welcome note to government surveillance agencies (or worse, hackers who do it for fun), to monitor what’s on your plate for dinner this evening. Just as shown in the TV series Homeland, terrorists are capable of hacking even a pacemaker.
A fitness-tracking smartwatch, the one that counts your step or heartbeat, can be tampered with. Symantec Corporation has carried out research that confirms so. Make sure when you use IoT as security footage or baby monitor, isn’t being used to stalk your move. The other devises that are susceptible to such intrusion are Smart TVs, Baby monitors, USB, Routers and even toilets!
It is predicated that cutting-edge IoT solutions have already started to materialise at a rapid rate replacing the traditional customized solutions. It is to historically alter consumer habits and trends. No matter what security challenges they involve, business Internet of Things connections are expected to reach 5.4 billion in 5 years. According to Verizon Inc., organizations that do not switch to IoT-based solutions will lag behind by at least 10% less profit by 2025.
The security of Internet of Things depends on the data encryption during transmission. It will take true grits of manufacturers and careful consideration of computer scientists to ward off evils lurking behind the smart LEDs and unassuming webcams. Or else, IoT will be our 21st century’s cross to bear.