Nomenclature system for medical devices for the purpose of regulatory data exchange. Rationale

Smart, networked medical devices play a rapidly growing role in healthcare. Those devices and their data have to be integrated into the healthcare system. There are several reasons to reuse those data for well-defined purposes by well-defined partners; this reuse should be controlled by the patient and not depend on the manufacturer infrastructure. Different stakeholders have an understandable reason to access those data under the control of the patient. The authors propose an architecture of a decentralized data broker that receives the data streams from the devices and redistributes them securely to legitimate recipients. This broker is based on the peer-to-peer network Freenet. This network has been defined to be censorship resistant and to protect the privacy of persons sharing data. This covers the needs for protection expected from a secure data broker. The patient can directly define which of the stakeholders will receive which information and the information is encrypted in a way that only that partner can read it.

A Symmetric Encription Scheme for Electronic Data Exchange for Edge Medical Devices in a Dew-Fog Computing Environment

2019 International Conference on Mechatronics, Remote Sensing, Information Systems and Industrial Information Technologies (ICMRSISIIT) ◽

10.1109/icmrsisiit46373.2020.9405874 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Grace Simpson ◽

Quist-Aphetsi Kester ◽

Laurent Nana

Keyword(s):

Medical Devices ◽

Data Exchange ◽

Fog Computing ◽

Computing Environment ◽

Electronic Data

Global medical device nomenclature for the purpose of regulatory data exchange

10.3403/02426663u ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Medical Device ◽

Data Exchange ◽

Regulatory Data

Ultrastructural changes in murine lymphoma cells exposed to ultraviolet-A radiation

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010008482x ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 49 ◽

pp. 104-105

Author(s):

Delma P. Thomas ◽

Dianne E. Godar

Keyword(s):

Medical Devices ◽

Blood Cells ◽

White Blood Cells ◽

Consumer Products ◽

Ultrastructural Changes ◽

Ultraviolet A ◽

Uv Spectrum ◽

Lymphoma Cells ◽

Murine Lymphoma ◽

Transmission Electron

Ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from all three waveband regions of the UV spectrum, UVA (320-400 nm), UVB (290-320 nm), and UVC (200-290 nm), can be emitted by some medical devices and consumer products. Sunlamps can expose the blood to a considerable amount of UVR, particularly UVA and/or UVB. The percent transmission of each waveband through the epidermis to the dermis, which contains blood, increases in the order of increasing wavelength: UVC (10%) < UVB (20%) < UVA (30%). To investigate the effects of UVR on white blood cells, we chose transmission electron microscopy to examine the ultrastructure changes in L5178Y-R murine lymphoma cells.

Bacterial biofilm behavior in water-supply lines of dental units

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100124811 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 882-883

Author(s):

B.D. Tall ◽

K.S. George ◽

R. T. Gray ◽

H.N. Williams

Keyword(s):

Water Supply ◽

Medical Devices ◽

Biofilm Formation ◽

Bacterial Biofilm

Studies of bacterial behavior in many environments have shown that most organisms attach to surfaces, forming communities of microcolonies called biofilms. In contaminated medical devices, biofilms may serve both as reservoirs and as inocula for the initiation of infections. Recently, there has been much concern about the potential of dental units to transmit infections. Because the mechanisms of biofilm formation are ill-defined, we investigated the behavior and formation of a biofilm associated with tubing leading to the water syringe of a dental unit over a period of 1 month.