Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Mobile stroke units, cybersecurity top ECRI 2016 innovation watch list

The ECRI Institute today released a top 10 watch list for innovations that are “molding the landscape of healthcare in 2016 and beyond,” placing mobile stroke units, medical device cybersecurity and wireless wearable sensors at the top.

The list is meant to highlight important new or emerging issues in healthcare with intentions of improving safety and cost effectiveness, the ECRI Institute said.

“Taking an evidence-based, ‘just the facts’ approach to assessing new healthcare innovations—from gadgets to drugs to infrastructure issues—that have been on our radar for the last year, we present hospital leaders with unbiased guidance to support informed decision making and help them understand how new innovations will affect care delivery,” health technology assessment director Diane Robertson said in a press release.

Mobile stroke units topped the list, which are specialized ambulance vehicles designed specifically for treating stroke victims. Below that, medical device cybersecurity, which saw quite a lot of pressin 2015, and wireless wearable sensors took the 2nd and 3rd slot. Miniature leadless pacemakers took 4th on the institute’s list. For the full article click here 



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