Quality and Safety

IronNet Cybersecurity CTO Michael Ehrlich says the top cyber concerns today are efforts to change our way of life, such as China with IP theft, Russia spreading discontent, and Iran and North Korea having weapons capabilities.

MITRE Senior Principal Cybersecurity Engineer Margie Zuk details the pre- and post-market cyber guidelines the FDA has posted for medical devices to eliminate confusion around security.

The industry has learned a lot during the last decade, done the best it could in many ways, but now we're starting "a new wave of change" in healthcare, says Subha Airan-Javia, associate professor at Penn Medicine.

Mayo Clinic Medical Informaticist Dr. Karl Poterack says one of the challenges is figuring out how to use the data that patients create for predicting future health events.

At MEDinIsrael in Tel Aviv, Leon Lerman, CEO of Cynerio, shares how his company keeps smart medical devices and hospital networks safe from cyberattacks.

There's room for improvement in transparency and patient identification, but there's also the potential for blockchain to be corrupted, says Wende Hutton, general partner at venture capital firm Canaan Partners.

With the data liquidity issue being addressed, data portability will be the next interoperability hurdle, says Dr. Tom Giannulli, CMIO of AMA's Integrated Health Model Initiative.

Ver2 Digital Medicine CEO Brian de Francesca talks about how telemedicine has evolved and efforts to provide medical care to refugees in camps using a cloud-based EHR built on blockchain.

Rohit Ghosh, founding member of Qure.ai, discusses deploying AI and machine learning to radiology and examples of success stories.

Hospitals have to make manufacturers realize that prospective clients are buying based on security, says Parham Eftekhari, executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology.