Posted on 04/03/2015 6:04:13 AM PDT by Star Traveler
Voyant’s diagnostic tool for hip-replacement surgery is just the latest that blurs the lines of how Apple devices are going far beyond consumer use.
An app by Israeli health-tech firm Voyant, to help doctors plan hip replacement on mobile devices, was granted FDA approval this week as a Class II medical device (requiring regulatory controls to provide reasonable assurance of the device’s safety and effectiveness).
With this app, doctors can import images from secure hospital networks, insert digital implant images to determine the best surgery techniques for each case, visualize an operation, and use the resulting data for review or consultation.
In a statement, Marc Mackey, general manager of orthopedics at German firm BrainLab, which acquired Voyant in 2001, said that Voyant’s TraumaCad platform, in use on desktops for over a decade, is very popular among surgeons, and “with the mobile version of TraumaCad, digital templating can now be accessed from any web browser or iPad, enabling surgeons to be more productive while also providing access to data for better inventory management.”
TraumaCad is the latest in a growing number of apps that are being used by iPhone- and iPad-bearing doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and other health professionals. Already, dozens of apps have been approved as medical devices by the FDA, since the US agency began requiring such approval in 2013.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...
The iPad is in the process of transforming many things in the medical field and with patients!
It’s about iOS apps, the iPad and the medical field!
In one year the 6 million Jews in Israel make more technical and medical advances to benefit mankind than the 1.3 billion muslims have made in the entire 1,400 years since Mohammed raped a 9 year old.
Baby steps to the tri-corder. I would like to see the hypo-spray. I hate needles.
And when Israel is gone, which Palestinian or Arab company will fill the void for every technological advance Israel gave to humanity over the last 60+ years?
Yeah, the Jews have always worked for the betterment of mankind!
Yes, Istael and the Jews are “at risk” for being exterminated, but the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob steps in at the very last second before they are obliterated and saves them!
It’s going to be tough times in the near future, but at the end of it ... the Messiah of Israel sets up his one-world government in Israel and sets all the nations of the world to a better and perfect track, from that time forward. Israel becomes the head of all nations at that time!
My eye doctor has the info from the 4 or 5 info gathering assistants and their machines piped into his I pad. He reviews the I pad between patients and comes into the room where I have been staged with the complete picture.
It makes him vastly more productive
Another innovation by a Jewish productive people. Haven’t seen much from the religion of peace lately. Oh wait they did manage to kill another group of Christians today. Excuse me!
Yep, this kind of technology is transforming all our lives for the better!
It is QUITE AMAZING how much the Jewish people have provided for the benefit of the world!
Anyone have an app that monitors pacemaker activity if they are already set up for remote monitoring? This would need to be an read only app and not a programming capable app.
I just did a search and found that “Pacemaker” is the name of an iTunes music app!!!
When Swordmaker pings those other Apple, iPhone and iPad Freepers (about 800 on the list, I think) ... you might find someone who knows about it.
He probably won’t get to it until this evening, though ... so just be patient (no pun intended ... LOL ...).
I don’t believe this will help you, but it’s getting close ... :-) ...
iPad App Remotely Monitors Pacemakers, Defibrillators
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/iPad-App-Remotely-Monitors-Pacemakers-Defibrillators-255736
Well, except for Soros...............but then he's not really a Jew, more a minion of Satan.
I did a search and found an old article that is very interesting:
Computerworld | Sep 25, 2013 4:22 PM PT
FDA will regulate mobile apps that turn smartphones into medical devices
After several years of security experts like Barnaby Jack (RIP) and diabetic Jay Radcliffe demonstrating how easily embedded medical devices could hacked wirelessly, the feds were pressed to protect wireless medical devices from hackers. The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board suggested the FDA should be responsible for educating manufacturers, health care and users “about the risks associated with networked and wireless medical devices.”
Education is most assuredly needed as was recently pointed out by John Pescatore, the Director of the SANS Institute, after he attended a HealthCare security breakfast during the SANS NetSec conference. He is clearly fed up with how often medical machinery and servers are left vulnerable because “vendors don’t issues updates incorporating patches to Windows or other commercial software running underneath the application. The system vendors often claim ‘We can’t patch, because then we would have to go through FDA certification all over again’.” Pescatore said, “This is, to put it politely, a lie.”
If you ever hear that excuse, be sure to point the vendors toward the truth of the FDA allowing patching without requiring re-certification since 2005. As Pescatore stated, the FDA reiterated the need for patching without needing re-certification in 2009 after Conficker and again in 2013. As a matter of fact, this summer, ICS-CERT and the FDA warned that medical devices with hard-coded passwords can be remotely “exploited to potentially change critical settings and/or modify device firmware.” The FDA proposed rules that recommended for device makers to provide the agency with their plans for providing patches and updates.
Yeah, I understand ... but I was talking “collectively” ... :-) ...
Thanks
Who in their right mind would want to tinker with such a contraption, killjoys would say, when a perfectly good horse and buggy would get the job done just fine - without all the mechanical hassles?
Such it is with the poor iPad. When it was introduced in 2009, everybody laughed and said "who would want an oversized iPhone - that doesn't even make phone calls?"
But gradually, tablet devices are replacing laptop computers in the world of business. When I go to meetings now, more than half of us are now tapping away on tablets that lie flat on the conference table, while the dinosaurs hide behind their laptops. In fact, it's increasingly considered rude to lug a laptop into a business meeting. The form factor of a tablet invites more participation at meetings because you can't hide behind it.
Taking the train to and from work in Manhattan each day, the tablet evaporates the commute for me. I'm browsing the WSJ, approving expense reports, reading Kindle books, surfing the web, staying on top of emails...suddenly I'm at the station and either ready to start the workday with a clean slate or I'm home with nothing work-related left to do for the rest of the day.
Still, on those long train rides to Manhattan from Connecticut, I see other commuters staring blankly off into space or trying to read the tiny text on their tiny smart phones as they jostle down the track. The tablet has freed me from those miserable commutes.
In fact, the tablet has replaced the computer for me on vacations and even business trips. No more having to lug heavy laptops and all the accessories that go with them, in my suitcase anymore. I just slip the tablet into a side pocket (less than a pound) and I'm ready to go.
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