Medical devices

Steen Strand, CEO of Emteq Labs, discusses the company's launch of Sense, emotion-sensing eyewear that collects real-world data on a wearer's facial expressions and its potential use for healthcare data collection.

Christopher Ahn, biomedical engineer supervisor at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, says that for clinicians who use medical devices an AI chatbot could answer questions and offer support, which is more immediate than filing a service ticket.

Antoine Robiliard, VP at Withings, relays how the company's home health devices, including its smart scale, help with remote patient monitoring to enable care teams to gather patient data while concentrating on other work.

Jesus Diaz, director, nursing informatics at Memorial Healthcare System, tells the story of a mother who used the health system's mobile app to monitor her premature twins' NICU progress. It reduced her anxiety when she couldn't be there.  

Richard Staynings, chief security strategist at Cylera, talks about a study exposing how AI in smart medical devices could be vulnerable to cyberattack, as well as how microsegmentation and firewall controls can help prevent such attacks.

Adam Chee, associate professor, National University of Singapore, discusses cybersecurity challenges facing healthcare organizations, including the inability to patch medical devices' vulnerabilities without their manufacturers' approval.

Cleveland Clinic ACO's Dr. Jessica Hohman and Cleveland Clinic Florida's Dr. Richard Rothman discuss their upcoming HIMSS24 session on how the hospital system created and evolved its scalable home-based acute and post-acute care models.  

Davidi Vortman, CEO of UltraSight, discusses the company's AI-driven cardiac-imaging technology that helps providers quickly and efficiently triage patients and the ways the FDA-cleared system is used in the U.S. and globally.  

Ali Youssef, cybersecurity director at Henry Ford Health, relays why it is difficult for health systems to defend themselves from malicious actors and how institutions should prepare now for an inevitable cybersecurity breach.

Dr. Benoit Desjardins, professor at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, tells where vulnerabilities exist with medical devices, what practices can do to protect patients and patient information and how AI can help with cybersecurity.