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- 081TechnologySource · MedCity News
Sleep Is the Missing Vital Sign, and Health AI Is Scaling the Consequences
Sleep monitoring is emerging as a critical vital sign for understanding cardiovascular, metabolic, immune, and mental health outcomes. Health AI platforms are enabling continuous overnight data collection and analysis to detect near-term changes and long-range risk patterns. The article examines how systematic sleep measurement integrated with AI diagnostics is shifting clinical decision-making and vendor opportunities in remote patient monitoring.
- 082TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
HIMSSCast: Ambient AI scribes pose important regulatory and legal questions
Ambient AI scribes are gaining traction as tools to reduce clinician time spent on electronic health record documentation. The technology presents regulatory and legal questions for healthcare IT vendors and EHR providers around liability, compliance, and clinical validation. As adoption accelerates, device makers and software vendors will need to navigate FDA oversight, malpractice frameworks, and data governance standards.
- 083TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Q&A: AI platform targets clinical chart insights beyond LLM limits
Dyania Health has developed Synapsis AI, a clinical AI platform designed to extract context-driven insights from patient charts and answer specific queries rather than generate generic summaries. The platform addresses limitations of large language models in healthcare by focusing on precise, question-driven analysis of medical records, targeting clinical decision support and operational efficiency in healthcare settings.
- 084TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
The Quiet Revolution in Battery Technology That’s Powering Your Next Artificial Heart
Advances in lithium-ion battery technology are enabling longer operational lifespans and improved performance in implantable artificial heart devices and robotic surgical systems. The development of smart battery management systems addresses a critical supply-chain constraint for medical device OEMs relying on these power sources for next-generation cardiac support and minimally invasive tools.
- 085TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
At UToledo Health, ambient AI decreases open charts, improves documentation
University of Toledo Health deployed ambient AI technology to reduce clinician documentation burden and improve EHR efficiency. The implementation decreased open charts and improved documentation workflows, addressing a key pain point in clinical operations where EHR administrative tasks have diverted time from direct patient care.
- 086TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
AI-enabled medtech introduces risks facilities aren’t ready for, cybersecurity report says
A survey of 551 healthcare professionals across the U.S., U.K., and Germany commissioned by RunSafe Security found that nearly 60% expressed high concern about cybersecurity attacks on medical devices, with some organizations reporting incidents that affected patient care. The report highlights that AI-enabled medical devices are introducing security risks that healthcare facilities may be unprepared to manage.
- 087TechnologySource · MedCity News
6 Things to Know About Medtronic’s Cyberattack
Medtronic disclosed a cyberattack on its corporate IT systems, underscoring rising cybersecurity threats across the medtech sector. The incident involved phishing and social engineering tactics used by cybercriminals to obtain unauthorized access to company data. The attack reflects a broader trend of escalating cyber threats targeting medical device makers and healthcare infrastructure.
- 088TechnologySource · MedCity News
Why Healthcare AI Still Can’t Scale — and How Nvidia & Hoppr Are Trying to Fix It
Nvidia and Hoppr are developing infrastructure to enable healthcare providers to build and deploy custom AI imaging models, addressing scaling challenges in medical AI adoption. Rather than relying on standalone applications, the approach aims to create a foundational layer that allows organizations to train and operationalize models internally, potentially accelerating broader AI implementation across healthcare systems.
- 089TechnologySource · MedCity News
What Dentistry Is Teaching Healthcare About Operational AI
Dental practices are adopting AI to address operational inefficiencies and tight reimbursement cycles, focusing on measurable administrative impact rather than novelty. The experience offers lessons for broader healthcare operations on practical AI implementation and ROI evaluation in cost-sensitive environments.
- 090TechnologySource · MedCity News
How Recent Changes in ‘Patient-Matched’ Technology Are Reshaping the Future of Surgical Care
Patient-matched medical device technology is shifting clinical practice toward personalized treatments, with manufacturers adapting implants and devices to individual patient anatomy rather than requiring patients to accommodate standard designs. This manufacturing and design evolution reflects a broader move toward customization in surgical care.
- 091TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Kingstec advances real-time medical asset tracking
Kingstec Technologies has implemented Technology Trace Inc.'s trevii platform for real-time medical asset tracking at St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton in Ontario. The partnership combines Kingstec's manufacturing and logistics expertise with Technology Trace's asset management software to enable hospitals to track medical equipment and supplies in real time.
- 092TechnologySource · MedCity News
Why Some Hospitals Are Betting on Midstream Health to Help Eliminate Waste
Midstream Health, an AI startup, is helping health systems including Mount Sinai and CommonSpirit identify cost-savings opportunities by analyzing fragmented spending data. The platform focuses on optimizing purchasing decisions and waste reduction across hospital operations rather than revenue generation. The approach targets procurement and supply chain efficiency for large health systems.
- 093TechnologySource · MedCity News
Healthcare’s Identity Crisis: Why A Single Prescription Requires Multiple Logins
Healthcare IT systems lack interoperable identity and access management standards, forcing users to authenticate multiple times across disconnected platforms for routine tasks like prescription processing. Industry experts argue the solution requires phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication, adaptive access controls, and standards-based interoperability frameworks to unify authentication across vendors and health systems.
- 094TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
AI may be approaching a new phase in healthcare, on two fronts
Physicians are adopting agentic AI tools like Claude Code to develop custom clinical applications, marking a shift toward clinician-led software development within health systems. While the approach promises to accelerate app creation, industry experts caution that widespread adoption requires new security audits and professional engineering oversight to address AI-generated vulnerabilities and protect patient data.
- 095TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
Interoperability governance gaps put pressure on nationwide exchange networks
Nationwide health information exchange networks are facing pressure to expand responsibilities beyond their original scope as interoperability demands grow, creating questions about whether existing governance structures can adapt. The gaps in governance frameworks are straining networks' ability to support modern data-sharing requirements across healthcare systems.
- 096TechnologySource · Healthcare IT News
New Zealand Telehealth Services to pilot AI support for helplines
Whakarongorau Aotearoa, New Zealand's telehealth services provider, will pilot a Microsoft Azure AI-powered service in May to assist callers during wait times before connecting with healthcare staff. The deployment represents a vendor adoption of cloud-based AI infrastructure to augment helpline operations and improve caller experience in a telehealth setting.
- 097TechnologySource · Mobi Health News
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Clinicians
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Clinicians, a large-language-model tool designed for individual healthcare providers to assist with medical research, documentation, and sourced answers. The company positioned it for clinicians at facilities without centralized AI systems, with conversations excluded from model training. The offering represents an entry point for GPT-based AI into point-of-care workflows.
- 098TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
How digitizers power next-generation SS-OCT systems
Advanced digitizers are enabling faster data acquisition in swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) systems, supporting higher imaging speeds and improved sensitivity in real-time tissue visualization. SS-OCT's enhanced depth penetration and resolution compared to conventional OCT make digitizer performance critical to next-generation imaging system design.
- 099TechnologySource · MedCity News
Wearable Noise Is Exploding — Trust Is the Filter
Wearable devices are generating unprecedented volumes of health data, but clinicians and payers face growing uncertainty about data reliability and clinical utility. The article examines the challenge of validating wearable outputs for clinical decision-making, reimbursement justification, and patient reassurance, highlighting a critical gap between device proliferation and evidence-based confidence in their outputs.
- 100TechnologySource · Medical Design & Outsourcing
Microstructure makes ePTFE a versatile medtech material
Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) is a widely used material in medical devices with applications including vascular grafts and stent coatings. The material's versatility stems from its microstructure, which can be engineered in multiple forms to deliver varying properties such as chemical inertness, biocompatibility, flexibility, and durability. Understanding these structural variations is important for device engineers selecting ePTFE for specific applications.
- 101TechnologySource · Fierce Healthcare
UPDATED: Stryker hit by international cyberattack linked to pro-Iran group
Stryker Corporation experienced a significant cyberattack attributed to a pro-Iran threat actor that resulted in data wiping across enterprise systems and disrupted employee access. The incident highlights vulnerabilities in medical device manufacturer IT infrastructure and raises questions about business continuity for a major surgical equipment and orthopedic devices supplier. Stryker supplies hospitals and surgical centers globally with imaging systems, surgical instruments, and hospital beds.
- 102TechnologySource · Fierce Healthcare
Quest Diagnostics launches Google-powered AI chatbot to help patients understand lab results
Quest Diagnostics launched an AI-powered chatbot built on Google technology to help patients interpret laboratory test results. The tool allows customers to query their findings and access health insights independently. The move represents a digital engagement strategy by a major clinical laboratory vendor to enhance patient-facing services and differentiate its lab services platform.