Category: Safety

Safety

FDA, ECRI Partner for Safer Medical Device Materials

The FDA says its goal is to prevent patients from experiencing adverse effects from certain materials used in medical devices.

Safety

University of Minnesota Launches Center for Medical Device Cybersecurity

The center will foster university-industry-government collaborations to ensure that medical devices are both safe and secure from the growing number of cybersecurity threats, officials say.

Safety

FDA Seeks More Power for Medical Device Cybersecurity Mandates

Suzanne Schwartz, director of the U.S. FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health Office of Strategic Partnerships and Technology Innovation, reveals that the FDA is requesting “additional legislative authorities” designed to improve medical device cybersecurity amid surging cyberattacks.

Cybersecurity

A Stalwart for Security: Ben Person

Here, Nuvolo’s Vice President of Global Marketing Ben Person shares what surprised him most in his company's joint survey with HIMSS regarding cybersecurity preparedness in the healthcare sector.

Medical Device Errors

CMMS Competitors Standardize Medical Device Failure Codes

Six competing computerized maintenance management system suppliers recently outlined an agreed-upon method for optimizing and standardizing medical device failure codes.

Fire Safety

Woman Has Closed Casket After Being Burned in Bedside Explosion at Hospital

A woman's death is under investigation after a defibrillator fire and explosion burned her during treatment at a Texas hospital, reports Newsweek.

Hospital Safety

COVID-19-Contaminated Hospital Surfaces ‘Unlikely’ to Be Infectious

A new study by researchers at the University of California, Davis, confirms the low likelihood that SARS-CoV-2 contamination on hospital surfaces is infectious.