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- 041TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
AdaptHealth discloses June cyberattack resulting in patient data exposure
AdaptHealth disclosed a cyberattack in June that exposed patient data after a third-party contractor's credentials were compromised within the company's cloud-based system. The breach highlights supply-chain security risks in cloud infrastructure used by medical equipment and homecare vendors.
- 042TechnologySource · MedCity News
Hospital Networks are Becoming Targets in Cyberwarfare, and They’re Unequipped to Deal With It
Hospital networks face mounting cybersecurity threats from state-sponsored and ideological actors, with healthcare leaders warning that traditional incident-response models are inadequate against adversaries seeking prolonged disruption rather than quick financial gain. The shift toward politically motivated attacks—distinct from ransomware-focused criminal groups—requires hospitals to rethink defense strategies and vendor partnerships around resilience and attribution.
- 043TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
Nitinol has become central to innovation in ablation therapies
Nitinol material is playing an increasingly central role in electrophysiology ablation catheter design, particularly as pulsed field ablation (PFA) technology gains clinical adoption. The material's properties enable improved precision steering and catheter control in ablation procedures, supporting innovation in the EP ablation market.
- 044TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
EAN 2026: MS Copilot shows promise in monitoring disability progression in MS
MS Copilot, a digital health tool for monitoring multiple sclerosis disability progression, showed correlation with the MSFC-4 clinical framework in a study presented at EAN 2026. The system uses AI-driven detection to track patient outcomes, offering potential for remote monitoring and clinical decision support in neurology care.
- 045TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
July 2026 issue: Robotic stroke telesurgery’s time is now
Robotic stroke telesurgery is advancing as neurosurgical devices, robotics, and connectivity converge to expand access to stroke intervention. Over three decades since the FDA's first clot-busting drug approval in 1996, medtech developers have created thrombectomy devices for faster and safer clot removal, with robotic telesurgery now positioned to democratize access to specialized stroke care.
- 046TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
A cautionary tale of quality automation and engineering expertise from the auto industry
A manufacturing quality article draws lessons from Ford's recent defect issues to illustrate the importance of robust automation and engineering expertise in medical device production, where quality failures carry life-safety implications. The piece uses automotive manufacturing mishaps as a cautionary framework for regulated medical device makers.
- 047TechnologySource · MedCity News
Radiologists Need AI That Works Where They Work, Not Standalone Software
Radiologists report that standalone AI software tools create additional workflow disruption rather than improving efficiency. The issue centers on lack of integration with existing radiology systems and clinical workflows where radiologists already work, highlighting a market demand for AI solutions that embed seamlessly into established platforms rather than requiring separate, parallel tools.
- 048TechnologySource · MedCity News
Documentation Tools Aren’t Just for Doctors: Inside Reid Health’s Deployment of Abridge’s Nurse Tech
Rural health system Reid Health deployed Abridge's AI-powered documentation software to nurses, reporting a 45-minute reduction in after-shift charting time and more than a 50% cut in RN vacancy rates. The technology extends Abridge's documentation automation beyond physician use to nursing workflows.
- 049TechnologySource · MedCity News
Why Generative AI Isn’t Enough: The Case for Causal Reasoning in Medicine
An analysis examines the limitations of generative AI in clinical settings and advocates for causal-reasoning systems that provide transparent, mechanism-based outputs grounded in validated biology. The piece argues that explainability and source citation are essential for maintaining clinical trust in AI-driven medical tools, distinguishing transparent reasoning systems from black-box generative models.
- 050TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
Clariyon’s AI tool boosts sepsis care compliance in hospital study
Clariyon released clinical-trial data showing its AI tool improved physician compliance with sepsis-care protocols in hospital settings. The timing coincides with rising adoption of AI decision-support systems in acute care, where sepsis affects 1.7 million US adults annually. The tool is designed to standardize evidence-based sepsis management workflows.
- 051TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
Oracle Health and Theator partner to offer AI surgical intelligence in US
Oracle Health has partnered with Theator to deliver AI-powered surgical intelligence solutions to its US customer base. The collaboration integrates Theator's AI platform with Oracle Health's infrastructure, enabling real-time surgical workflow analysis and optimization for operating room teams.
- 052TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
MIT researchers develop 3D-printed electronic nozzles for precise drug delivery
MIT researchers developed 3D-printed triaxial electrospray emitters that use electrical pulses to dispense three liquids simultaneously, forming multilayered droplets that solidify into microparticles for time-release drug delivery. The low-cost nozzle design enables precise particle production at scale, potentially offering suppliers a new manufacturing approach for controlled-release formulations.
- 053TechnologySource · MedCity News
Preparing Healthcare Networks For The Vulnerability Flood
Healthcare networks face escalating cybersecurity threats from zero-day exploits and unpatched backdoors, requiring unified network infrastructure and improved vulnerability forecasting. Medical IT teams must adopt integrated defensive strategies to manage the expanding attack surface in hospital and clinic environments.
- 054TechnologySource · MedCity News
Combined GI Procedures Are Becoming Routine – AI Can Help Address the Gap in Upper GI Quality Standards
Combined upper and lower GI endoscopy is becoming standard practice in US healthcare settings, but quality-assurance infrastructure for upper GI procedures has not kept pace. AI-driven solutions are emerging to help standardize and monitor upper GI procedure quality across providers.
- 055TechnologySource · MedCity News
What’s Flowing Beneath the World Cup: How Verily’s Wastewater Monitoring Could Catch the Next Outbreak
Verily is conducting wastewater pathogen monitoring across World Cup host cities, testing for RSV, measles, norovirus, and other pathogens to detect disease outbreaks five to seven days before clinical presentation. The initiative demonstrates application of environmental surveillance technology for early outbreak detection at large-scale public events.
- 056TechnologySource · MedCity News
Where Healthcare Data Systems Fail and How to Build Them Better
An analysis of healthcare data system failures and design approaches to improve interoperability and data tracking across multiple platforms. The piece examines common pitfalls in healthcare IT infrastructure and recommends intentional system architecture strategies to enable better data flow and governance in multi-system environments.
- 057TechnologySource · MedCity News
In the Age of AI, Interoperability Isn’t Enough: Why Healthcare Needs Shared Understanding, Not Just Shared Data
A healthcare industry analysis argues that data interoperability alone is insufficient for AI adoption in medical systems. The piece contends that vendors and health systems need frameworks to translate clinical context into consistent, machine-readable representations across platforms and applications to enable safe, effective AI deployment.
- 058TechnologySource · MedCity News
Abridge Goes Beyond Documentation: 4 Updates
Clinical AI startup Abridge announced a partnership with Nvidia on foundation models, secured investment from Eli Lilly, and expanded its platform capabilities beyond clinical documentation. The company also signaled plans to address payer-provider workflows. The announcements reflect a shift toward broader clinical decision support and operational integration rather than standalone transcription.
- 059TechnologySource · MedCity News
From Copilots to Clinical Judgment: The Next Phase of AI in Digital Behavioral Health
MedCity News discusses the evolution of AI in digital behavioral health platforms beyond basic copilot assistance toward integrated decision-support systems where clinicians, supervisors, and AI collaborate. The shift focuses on building systems that enable human-AI interaction to improve clinical decision-making rather than replacing clinician judgment.
- 060TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Beyond real-time vitals: Enabling long-term biomarker measurement in wearable optical sensing
ams OSRAM discusses advances in optical sensing technology for wearable devices that extend beyond real-time vital signs to enable long-term biomarker measurement. The article explores how modern wearables capture physiological data including heart rate and blood oxygen, with implications for broader health monitoring applications.
- 061TechnologySource · MedCity News
When Geopolitics Becomes a Patient Safety Issue: Protecting Healthcare in an Era of Targeted Cyberattacks
Healthcare organizations face growing cybersecurity threats driven by geopolitical actors seeking disruption rather than ransom, according to analysis of targeted infrastructure attacks. The shift from financially motivated cybercrime to state-sponsored chaos-focused campaigns poses distinct operational and safety risks that most providers are unprepared to address, requiring new defensive strategies and vendor partnerships.
- 062TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
AccurKardia receives patent for AI-ECG cardiac amyloidosis detection
AccurKardia received a U.S. patent for an AI-powered system that detects cardiac amyloidosis from standard 12-lead ECGs. The machine learning technology addresses delayed diagnosis in a disease area where early detection is challenging, expanding the company's AI-ECG analytics pipeline.
- 063TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Microsoft partners with Mayo Clinic to develop frontier AI model for healthcare
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic announced a partnership to develop an advanced AI model for healthcare applications. The collaboration aims to leverage Mayo's clinical expertise and data with Microsoft's AI infrastructure to build tools that address healthcare workflows. Terms and specific use cases were not detailed.
- 064TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Microsoft partners with Mayo Clinic to develop frontier AI model for healthcare
Microsoft and Mayo Clinic formed a partnership to develop a frontier AI model for healthcare applications. The model, owned by Mayo Clinic, will integrate the health system's de-identified clinical data and longitudinal insights with Microsoft's AI, engineering, and cloud infrastructure. The collaboration aims to advance AI capabilities in clinical settings by combining clinical expertise with technology infrastructure.
- 065TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Beyond the screen: How ambient AI is changing the exam room
Beth Israel Lahey Health is implementing ambient AI in exam rooms to reduce physician documentation burden and improve patient engagement. The technology captures and processes clinical conversations without requiring clinicians to maintain eye contact with computer screens during appointments, allowing providers to focus more directly on patients while EHR data is populated automatically in the background.
- 066TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
New HSCC guide addresses cybersecurity risks specific to healthcare AI
The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council has released new guidance on cybersecurity risks specific to healthcare AI systems. The guide addresses governance and security considerations as providers increasingly deploy AI across clinical and operational workflows, going beyond existing regulatory requirements to help organizations establish effective AI cybersecurity practices.
- 067TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Epic integrates firearm injury risk screening tool from Northwell Health
Epic Systems has integrated a firearm injury risk screening tool developed by Northwell Health into its EHR platform. The tool enables clinicians to identify patients at elevated risk during clinical encounters. The integration expands access to the screening capability across Epic's user base of healthcare systems and providers.
- 068TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
SNUH, Harvard unveil world's first virtual hospital for validating medical AI
Seoul National University Hospital and Harvard Medical School have developed a virtual hospital framework for validating large language model-based medical AI. The Clinical Environment Simulator uses two synchronized core engines to dynamically evaluate medical AI systems, offering a standardized platform for testing AI-driven diagnostic and clinical decision-support tools before real-world deployment.
- 069TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Epic integrates firearm injury risk screening tool from Northwell Health
Epic Systems has integrated a firearm injury risk screening tool developed by Northwell Health into its EHR platform. The tool, created through NIH-funded research, enables healthcare providers to screen patients for firearm injury risk and systematically collect data on firearm-injured patients within Epic workflows.
- 070TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Budget 2026: New Zealand funds digital health upgrades, cybersec
New Zealand's 2026 budget allocates NZ$450 million ($270 million) for digital health infrastructure and cybersecurity across the public health system. Te Whatu Ora Health New Zealand will receive NZ$153.6 million ($91.7 million) to expand 24/7 cybersecurity monitoring and response capabilities, strengthen specialist expertise, and deploy critical security upgrades across primary care and hospital networks.
- 071TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
When SSRIs fail: the neuromodulation pathway
Device-based neuromodulation therapies are emerging as an alternative treatment pathway for patients with depression who do not respond adequately to SSRIs. The article examines how neuromodulation devices can address treatment-resistant depression, positioning them as a viable clinical option for this patient population.
- 072TechnologySource · MedCity News
The EHR Was Built to Store Data — It Wasn’t Built to Orchestrate Care
Digital health vendors are advancing beyond traditional EHR data storage by adding AI-powered orchestration layers to enable real-time care activation. The approach pairs EHR platforms with intelligent middleware designed to coordinate workflows and drive actionable clinical decisions.
- 073TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Ultrasound analytics take digital transformation a step forward
Healthcare systems are adopting ultrasound analytics platforms to gain operational visibility into fleet utilization and workflow efficiency. These digital tools provide performance metrics across ultrasound departments at scale, supporting hospital digital transformation initiatives by helping optimize resource allocation and clinical scheduling.
- 074TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Australia pursues digitisation of child health records
Australia will launch development of a National Digital Child Health Record in July, integrating with My Health Record and the 1800MEDICARE app to provide families, carers, and care providers a consolidated view of pediatric health and development data across the care continuum.
- 075TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Can wearable data do more than track health? Singapore's Signsbeat is trying to find out
Signsbeat, a Singapore-based health tech startup, is developing a wearable-derived analytics platform that interprets physiological signals from wearables and continuous glucose monitors to provide actionable metabolic insights beyond passive health tracking. The company is testing whether correlating multiple data streams can explain the drivers behind vital-sign changes rather than simply reporting individual metrics.
- 076TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Wearables data pose a vulnerability that could undermine RPM programs
Remote patient monitoring programs using wearable devices face cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could compromise data integrity and program effectiveness, according to healthcare IT analysts. As RPM adoption grows across clinical settings, IT leaders must address encryption, authentication, and secure data transmission standards to protect patient information and maintain regulatory compliance.
- 077TechnologySource · Medical Device Network
AiM Medical to integrate robotic neurosurgery system with Siemens’ MRI systems
AiM Medical Robotics will develop an interface to integrate its robotic neurosurgery platform with Siemens Healthineers MRI systems. The partnership aims to enable real-time imaging guidance during neurosurgical procedures by connecting the two systems.
- 078TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
IHH Healthcare embeds AI into workflows as adoption scales across hospitals
IHH Healthcare, a major Asia-Pacific hospital operator, is embedding AI into clinical and operational workflows across its network. The deployment focuses on improving efficiency and reducing administrative burden, with growing interest in advanced clinical AI applications. The rollout reflects broader regional momentum among healthcare organisations to adopt AI for workflow optimisation.
- 079TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
Singapore, Bhutan partner on rural chest X-ray AI
SingHealth (Singapore) and the Royal University of Bhutan's Gyalpozhing College of Information Technology have signed a two-year memorandum of understanding to develop an AI-assisted chest X-ray diagnostic model for rural hospitals. The collaboration aims to support lung-condition diagnosis in resource-limited settings.
- 080TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
AI's promise meets the pediatric frontline
Children's Hospital of Orange County is deploying AI tools to address clinician burden from electronic health record systems. Dr. Steven Martel leads efforts to use artificial intelligence to streamline workflows and reduce administrative overhead in pediatric care settings, representing a shift toward AI-enabled clinical software solutions.