Smart phones build a digital profile by tracking and monitoring our behavior and activities. Digitalization is happening all around us and COVID-19 has brought even more digital technologies into our lives. It is encouraging to see how data is being integrated into health care systems. The FDA thinks we can use these kinds of data […]
Cyber attacks are not just a potential threat, they are a reality. It seems that every other week a cybersecurity issue is making headlines globally. We live in an ultra-connected world where medical devices are a big part of what is connected.
Three years ago I migrated from medical device design and development to the client side of Digital Health. I had the privilege of leading and managing components of transformational initiatives related to Electronic Health Record, also known (and preferred by users) as Clinical Information Systems. This experience changed my thinking about medical design excellence.
StarFish engineers Sal Sanci, Dean Addison, Mike Sanders and Nigel Syrotuck explore the pros and cons of popular Digital Health communication technologies over a series of blogs on the subject. This blog examines Digital Health communication technology cost and deployability for medical devices.
Is Device Generated Data part of your medical device plans? We live in a digital era, and if you are in the medical device design and development business, it may be wise to think digital health. There is an undeniable shift from stand-alone technology to integrated systems even for devices with specialized functionality. Granted, devices with […]
The digital health market is starting to remind me of the dot-com bubble, when anything internet went from boom to bust. Back in 1998 I was with a start-up company that monitored equipment health, particularly equipment used to make computer chips. We were a software development company, but we did not have an internet solution […]
As a medical device design and development service provider, we help entrepreneurs and innovators make technology decisions for diagnostic, therapeutic, and rehabilitative applications. Increasingly medical devices include Digital Health connectivity.
Increasingly medical devices include Digital Health connectivity. StarFish engineers Sal Sanci, Dean Addison, Mike Sanders and Nigel Syrotuck explore the pros and cons of popular communication technologies over a series of blogs on the subject. This blog examines Digital Health communication technology options for medical devices.
The Internet of Things (IOT), Digital Health and your Medical Device: Understanding the value of your medical device communicating when IOT and Digital Health become commonplace
Why isn’t digital health more prevalent? Have you noticed everyone talking to Google or Siri from their phones? WIRED magazine reported that about one third of teenagers use voice search to call (43%), play songs (30%) or get help with homework (31%). As a kid watching the “Knight Rider” TV show, I would scoff at the idea […]
Lately I have had the opportunity to watch VibeDX and Dorn Systems develop technologies in spinal care devices. They highlight the future of digital health, as these innovations will further accelerate how digital information is shared in the healthcare network.
Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) are tiny computer chips with moving parts. Typically used as sensors, but also reversible to make actuators (usually), MEMS technology includes accelerometers, gyroscopes, piezoelectric devices, and microphones, to name just a few. They are the reason our phones know which way is up, our airbags deploy quickly, and technology has become so […]