In this article, Greg Joyner, director of biomedical engineering at Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, discusses the challenges of working in a high-stress pediatric environment and reveals how his team is collaborating with IT to improve the delivery of care.
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Not only do healthcare cyberattacks threaten medical systems and data, they also jeopardize patient safety. Fortunately, all hope is not lost. Networking aficionado Arleen Thukral discusses best practices for medical device cybersecurity here.
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A 629-bed pediatric hospital, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center ranks No.2 among all children’s hospitals in terms of the number of surgical procedures performed. Below, Glenn Schneider, CRES, MHSA, Cincinnati Children’s director of clinical engineering, discusses the challenges of working in a large teaching hospital and reveals how his team is handling succession planning.
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Wi-Fi network quality has become a safety and security issue as the number and type of wireless medical devices—such as EKGs/ECGs, patient monitoring equipment, and imaging systems—proliferate, a survey of Association for Executives in Healthcare Information Technology (AEHIT) members by Nyansa reveals.
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The Medical Device Innovation, Safety, and Security Consortium (MDISS) is developing a set of recommended practices and profiles for securing medical systems based on the normative requirements in the International Society of Automation/International Electrotechnical Commission 62443 series of standards for industrial automation and control systems cybersecurity.
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