Archives for FDA

05 Jul

Does Deregulating HIPAA Benefit Big Data?

The US Department of Health and Human Services has recently proposed amendments to the health policies under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). According to HHS, these modifications are aimed at changing the standards posing a hindrance to the transition to value-based health care by discouraging “care coordination” and “case management”…

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23 Mar

FDA Authorises First ML-Based COVID Screening Device

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an emergency use authorisation (EUA) for a Tiger Tech-released ML-based COVID-19 non-diagnostic screening device — COVID Plus Monitor. Termed to be first-of-its-kind, COVID Plus Monitor leverages machine learning that identifies certain biomarkers indicative of the virus that causes COVID-19. The Tiger Tech COVID Plus Monitor has…

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04 Mar

Cybersecurity In Healthcare Industry

2017, Wannacry cyberattack shook the National Health Service of the UK, which infected more than 2,00,000 computers, putting a total number of 16 healthcare centres on halt that led to the cancellation of more than 19,000 appointments.  In 2019, a man by the name of Martin Gottesfield from Massachusetts launched a DDoS attack on Boston’s…

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