The U.S. Department of Homeland Security released its Draft National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP) in September. Now, the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has written a letter focusing on three main topics to improve the plan.

Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine set out to analyze the effects of motor recovery and motor learning using rehabilitation techniques using a robotic arm and virtual games.

HOUSTON, September 22, 2016 – GuidaBot, LLC, a joint venture between the University of Houston and Fannin Innovation Studio, has received a one-year, $225,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and commercialize a robotic manipulator designed to work within the powerful magnetic field of an MRI machine.

Phoenix, VA -- September 15, 2016 -- The Phoenix Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System is the first hospitalin Arizona to deploy Xenex LightStrike™ Germ-Zapping Robots™ to destroy deadly germs and bacteria lurking on hospital surfaces that can cause hospital acquired infections (HAI).

Adding to the seemingly endless applications for robots, researchers have developed nanorobots capable of traveling through the blood stream to deliver drugs directly to cancerous tumors.

Frisco and Dallas, TX – August 11 –  HITRUST and Children’s Health℠, the leading pediatric health care system in North Texas, are working together to launch HITRUST CyberAid in an effort to help smaller healthcare organizations—specifically physician practices with less than 75 employees—address growing cyber risks and information protection challenges by providing them with a cyber security solution designed to support their small business environment. These organizations represent a crucial component in protecting today’s healthcare ecosystem  and are struggling to deploy effective information security technologies and employ effective security management practices.

Edison, NJ (July 18, 2016) – For the second consecutive year, JFK Medical Center is proud to be recognized as one of the nation’s Most Wired™ Hospitals. The designation is based on survey results designed to measure the level of information technology (IT) adoption in U.S. based hospitals and health systems. 

Wellington, NZ, 14th July 2016: Volpara Health Technologies (“Volpara”; ASX: VHT), a digital health company that provides solutions for the early detection of breast cancer, is pleased to announce it has begun the roll-out of its innovative Software as a Service (SaaS) platform with the soft launch of VolparaEnterprise clinical management software, which was foreshadowed in the Prospectus for their IPO earlier this year.