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We are seeing rapidly growing trends towards the application of digital therapeutics for mental health conditions; a great deal exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Are we approaching a time when doctors prescribe mobile apps, games for adolescents, or Virtual Reality to treat social anxiety and/or treat mental ill-health rather than medication or talk sessions? If YES, then managing cybersecurity and privacy risks must be top of the agenda.

Listen to this episode to understand the opportunities and growing challenges in managing duty of care, security, and privacy with a highly vulnerable population of patients with an easily accessible suite of mental health digital therapeutics.

Related Resources:

• DIMH2021: Digital Innovation in Mental Health
• IEEE SA Ethical Assurance of Data-Driven Technologies for Mental
• Healthcare Industry Connections Program (ICAID)
• IEEE SA 2021 Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series
• IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm: Security Privacy, Connectivity, and Accessibility for All Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA Tech and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials Industry Connections Program

What can an emerging Latin American region teach us when it comes to cyber risk management in the digital healthcare transformation?

We sit down with Roque Juarez, Security Intelligence Specialist at IBM in Mexico, to get an understanding of how basic principles can be critical to cyber threat management in connected healthcare systems regardless of whether you are an emerging or established economy. If you think COVID-19 pandemic slowed down the rate of threat, think again.

Tune in as Roque shares how COVID-19 made it more appealing for hackers to breach labs, healthcare systems, and any repository of patient health data and research.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
• IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA 2021 Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series
• IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm: Security Privacy, Connectivity, and Accessibility for All Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA Tech and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials Industry Connections Program
• IEEE Global Wearables and Medical IoT Interoperability & Intelligence (WAMIII) Program

What is one of the greatest risks in the connected healthcare ecosystem? Here’s a hint: it’s not the hackers.

Listen to our eye-opening conversation with a cutting-edge cybersecurity forensic technologist, Andrés Velázquez, Founder and President of MaTTica, based in Mexico, who highlights common global challenges and inherent obstacles in the emerging Latin American region.

As an industry where are we falling short? Where are we not investing resources

correctly? Find out how organizational shortcomings are feeding this growing threat to institutional and patient security and privacy and the overall future of connected healthcare.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
• IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA 2021 Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series
• IEEE SA Transforming the Telehealth Paradigm: Security Privacy, Connectivity, and Accessibility for All Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA Tech and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials Industry Connections Program
• IEEE Global Wearables and Medical IoT Interoperability & Intelligence (WAMIII) Program

How you manage and quantify risk will determine how fast you can minimize impact and reassure public trust in the connected healthcare system. Can connected healthcare be a risky business for you, the patient, and every stakeholder involved?

Listen to our discussion with T.R. Kane, Cybersecurity, Privacy & Forensics Partner, at one of the world’s top 5 consultancies, PwC [PricewaterhouseCoopers], as he explains how we need to better strategize planning and response to cyber vulnerabilities in the healthcare ecosystem. Tune in for insights on some of the best lifeline strategies for managing organizational and patient risk in this rapidly emerging domain.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
• IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series

Can cracking code on cybersecurity in the connected healthcare ecosystem accelerate innovation in the world of mobilized care?

We are taking a different perspective from the land down under with
Ashish Mahajan, Non-Executive Director of IoTSec Australia Inc, and Chair of the IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program. In this podcast, Ashish provides insights into the vulnerabilities of the entire data value chain in the IoT ecosystem that impede maximum utilization and innovation in public health, wellness, and healthcare. Hear how stakeholders in Australia are looking to live the mantra when the world gives you lemons, it’s best to make lemonade.

 

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
• IEEE SA IoT Ecosystem Security Industry Connections Program
• IEEE SA Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series

In healthcare, is IoMT the Internet of Medical Things or the “Internet of Many Threats”? We are now in a whole new norm with global connected healthcare bracing for increasing cyber data breaches. 

Listen to the premiere episode of Season 2 featuring Florence Hudson, Executive Director of Northeast Big Data Innovation Hub, as she explains the need for addressing cybersecurity, together with the IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice, a global program encompassing open collaborative innovation, systems thinking, and trust security solutions to create, capture, and secure value in the global connected healthcare system.

 

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice
• IEEE SA Global Connected Healthcare Cybersecurity Virtual Workshop Series
• IEEE P2933, Standard for Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS - Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security

Contact tracing technologies and applications (CTT/CTAs) have become a great focus in the new norm of COVID-19. There are many ethical and validation challenges surrounding the uses of these technologies which have been in play before the pandemic and will continue after.

Maria Palombini, Director of Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development and Healthcare Life Sciences (HLS) Practice Lead at IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), interviews Ali Hessami, Innovation Director at Vegas Global Systems LTD and Chair and Technical Editor for IEEE P7000 Standards, about ethical considerations on contact tracing technologies and applications in order to mitigate spread of the pandemic and protect personal privacy and public.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Page
• New Creative Commons Paper Addresses Ethical Hurdles to Contact Tracing Adoption
• Report: IEEE Use Case–Criteria for Addressing Ethical Challenges in Transparency, Accountability, and Privacy of CTA/CTT
• Does your COVID-19 tracing app follow you forever?  Privacy & Protection in a post-pandemic world (On-Demand Webinar – original broadcast July 2020)

Digital therapeutics are growing in popularity for patients. Combining science and technology creates a double-edge sword including one how to best establish quality and trust in the safety and efficacy of patients.

Maria Palombini, Director of Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development and Healthcare Life Sciences (HLS) Practice Lead at IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), Michael Ambrose, Director of Product Quality and Analytical Process at USP about establishing standards in digital therapeutics to assure quality and build trust with patients -- the core of the healthcare ecosystem.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Page
• White Paper: The Role of Public Standards in Assuring Quality of Digital Therapeutics

In an effort to enhance clinical research, Maria Palombini, Director of Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development and Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Practice Lead at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), interviews Jennifer Goldsack, Executive Director of Digital Medicine Society (DiME) to explore the need for bringing together pharmaceutical clinical researchers and technologists to compel device makers to embrace and develop open source and compatible technologies.

Related Sources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Page
• OpEd - "With Covid-19 halting clinical trials, wearables could be key — but data ‘wild west’ gets in the way" 
• IEEE SA Tech and Data Harmonization for Decentralized Clinical Trials
• IEEE SA Global WAMIII (Wearables and Medical IoT & Interoperability and Intelligence) Program

Maria Palombini, Director of Emerging Communities & Opportunities Development and Healthcare & Life Sciences (HLS) Practice Lead at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA), interviews Walter De Brouwer, CEO & Founder of Doc.ai and Chair of the IEEE SA Technology and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials Industry Connections (IC) Program to discuss decentralizing clinical trials, addressing remote health challenges during COVID-19, and how to engage in the IC program.

Related Resources:

• IEEE SA Healthcare and Life Sciences Practice Page
• IEEE SA Technology and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials Industry Connections (IC) Program