Partners in Digital Health

<p><strong>Medical Device Cybersecurity Standards: Raising the Bar for Patient Safety</strong></p><p></p><ul><li><strong>Naomi Schwartz - </strong>Vice President, Regulatory Strategy, Medcrypt</li><li><strong>Elizabeth Baker, PhD - </strong>Professor of Information Systems at Virginia Commonwealth University, and THMT Academic &amp; Research Integrity Oversight</li><li><strong>Maria Palombini - </strong>Director, Healthcare &amp; Life Sciences Global Practice Lead, IEEE Standards Association</li></ul><p></p><p>As healthcare becomes increasingly connected, medical device cybersecurity is no longer an IT issue — it is a patient safety imperative. In this expert discussion, three leaders at the intersection of regulation, standards, and innovation explore why cybersecurity must be embedded into the DNA of medical device design from day one.</p><p><strong>Topics include:</strong></p><ul><li>Standards and Innovation — Raising the Bar</li><li>Purpose Driven Functionality &amp; Protecting Patients</li><li>Predictability &amp; Security in Procurement</li><li>Designing with Standards from the Start</li><li>Medical Devices in Patient Care Settings</li><li>FDA’s VEX Data &amp; Quality Management Systems</li><li>Cybersecurity = Patient Safety</li><li>Be Proactive. Participate. Lead.</li></ul><p><strong>For more information on this subject visit:</strong></p><ul><li>Cybersecurity and Healthcare at DOI: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://doi.org/10.30953/thmt.v10.652">https://doi.org/10.30953/thmt.v10.652</a></li><li>Cybersecurity for Medical Device Certification video <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://telehealthandmedicinetoday.com/index.php/journal/article/view/651">here</a></li></ul>

<p><strong>Publishing Where It Matters: A Candid Conversation</strong></p><p></p><ul><li><strong>Paul Barach, MD, MPH </strong>THMT Associate Editor; Thomas Jefferson University, Principal at J. Bara Innovation, and Chief Medical Officer, Pegwin <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-698X">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7906-698X</a></li><li><strong>Dr. Suhail Chughtai, FRCS, FFLM </strong>Clinical Director of Orthopaedics &amp; Trauma, M L Professionals, London, UK, and AI Division Head, United Kingdom Digital Health &amp; Care, UK - THMT Co-Editor-in-Chief <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7639-2833">https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7639-2833</a></li><li><strong>Martin Curley, PhD </strong>Professor of Innovation at Maynooth University, Director of the Digital Health Ecosystem at the Innovation Value Institute, and a visiting professor at the University of Bath, Ireland - THMT Co-Editor-in-Chief</li></ul><p>In a refreshingly open and candid podcast conversation, new Editors-in-Chief of <em>Telehealth and Medicine Today</em> (THMT) sat down to talk honestly about where the journal stands, where it is headed, and why they believe it occupies a genuinely distinct and necessary place in the scholarly landscape. The conversation was a frank dialogue among colleagues who care deeply about the field and want researchers to understand both the journal's purpose and its current realities.</p><p>Catch every podcast episode on your favorite podcast platform and subscribe on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify.</p>

<p><strong>The Real Economics of Value Based Care</strong></p><p></p><ul><li><strong>Erik Johnson </strong>Senior Vice President and National Practice Lead, Value Based Care, Optum</li><li><strong>Lyle Berkowitz, MD </strong>Founder and Chairman, KeyCare and Editor-in-Chief, THMT</li></ul><p>Is value based care truly aligning incentives — or redistributing financial risk across payers, providers, and patients in ways that compress margins and shift burden? Is telehealth a costsaving lever under properly structured risk contracts — or perceived as a margin threat?</p><p>At a time when value based care dominates policy rhetoric, this episode moves past theory and into financial reality. This discussion directly examines whether value based care is delivering on its economic promise — or simply reshuffling financial risk across the system.</p><p>This episode also addresses the deeper economic tension beneath the surface: Who wins, who loses, and who is subsidizing whom?</p>

<p>Many organizations talk about the power of data but too few really understand the full potential. Utilizing a strategic framework that redefines the roles of collaboration and innovation, see how one organization built competitive differentiators by expanding upon the concept of a data analytics platform to create a data operating system and beyond enterprise analytics to facilitating an ecosystem.</p>

<p><strong>The 30% Problem:</strong> Solving Pharmaceutical Waste with Blockchain</p><p></p><p>With up to 30% of donated pharmaceutical aid products being diverted, stolen or going to waste in this session we will learn how blockchain technology is addressing some of the biggest trust challenges in the global supply chain. Supply chain issues may prevent people that are in greatest need of life-saving medicines from being treated. Through the use of a Decentralized Knowledge Graph and blockchain technology firms and governmental aid organizations now have visibility to supply chain traceability and transparency of donated medicines. The session will additionally cover ancillary benefits with the implementation of such a solution.</p>