Pulse+IT's weekly round-up of international health IT news for the week ending March 24: FDA rules for cybersecurity and medical devices, Apple heart study early results, popular health apps and privacy, post-operative remote monitoring, fax server fail, remote monitoring at home, best of breed for infection control, NHS interop expert
Groups ask FDA to rethink some medical device cyber proposals
Healthcare Info Security ~ Marianne Kolbasuk McGee ~ 20/03/2019
The Food and Drug Administration is generally on the right track in updating guidance for the cybersecurity of premarket medical devices but various changes are needed.
Preliminary results are in from the massive Apple Heart Study
MedCity News ~ Kevin Truong ~ 18/03/2019
According to findings presented at the American College of Cardiology’s annual meeting, 0.5 percent of participants received a notification about irregular pulse and 84 percent of participants who received irregular pulse notifications were found to be in atrial fibrillation at the time of the notification.
