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We have seen this before, artificial neural networks, analytics, big data analytics, and now AI. These are not all the same terms, but the message has been the same over the past 10-20 years. The use of data and algorithms is going to transform medical devices and healthcare, more broadly. To some degree it has...
Top 3 reasons why your surgical robotics development program is late It is a reality of Medtech product development that programs often run longer than planned. These products are increasingly complex, and with product complexity comes program uncertainty. Underneath each Medtech program is an intricate mesh of parallel development tracks, gating inter-dependencies, technical risks, and verification...
The healthcare ecosystem has been rapidly evolving over the past few decades, and it seems to be accelerating. Developing more cost-effective methods of addressing chronic diseases, such as cardiac-related illness, is a high priority. The fairly recent evolution of Patient Support Programs (PSP) is increasingly seen as having the potential to address this need. ...
Many organizations, eyeing their cloud adoption initiatives in the rearview mirror, are beginning to suffer some buyer’s remorse. Either the promise of the public cloud has failed to materialize, or perhaps sights were set on the wrong goals to begin with. A misapplication of the “lift-and-shift” cloud migration pattern is often the root cause of...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical imaging has been a rapidly evolving and promising area of development. A quick look at this year’s RSNA program will attest to the overarching interest in AI, and for good reason. AI technologies, particularly machine learning algorithms, have shown great results within the medical diagnostic imaging industry,...
The rate of change in the field of oncology has continued to accelerate, with an information doubling expected to occur every two months – or expanding at the rate of 64x per year. The oncology field has long since crossed the line that individuals can keep pace with the rate of increasing knowledge. It shouldn’t...
Recently, the New York Times had an article on Page 1, above the fold, titled, “Suddenly, It Looks Like We’re in a Golden Age for Medicine”. As the piece describes, the explosion of the utility of new biotech technologies, from CRISPR to mRNA, is leading to a continuous stream of new molecules targeted at an...
Intuitive Surgical shipped their first surgical Robotic Assisted Surgery (RAS) in 1998. In the twenty-five years since, the technology has become ingrained in most surgical procedures. Incredibly, the market itself is projected to grow 7-fold over the next 7 years. This growth has created a crowded market with over 125 companies entering the RAS market...
The expanding impact of Digital Health and Digital Therapeutics is being felt by the EP sector. Remote monitoring of implantable cardiac devices (ICDs), cardiac resynchronization therapy devices (CRT-Ds), and pacemakers have been shown to improve patient outcomes. More recent work applying convolution neural network (CNN) based artificial intelligence (AI) to the interpretation of ECG signals...
The pressure to extend product capabilities within the healthcare information systems industry has gone through cycles over the past few decades, but it has never been higher than it is right now. If you were to look at the HIMSS education track from ten years ago the focus was on getting broader adoption of existing...