Staff report
As healthcare environments become increasingly connected, the need to secure biomedical devices while ensuring operational efficiency and patient safety has never been greater. A recent Webinar Wednesday presentation offered an in-depth look at how Claroty empowers biomedical engineering teams to integrate robust cybersecurity and device management into their daily workflows.
Webinar co-presenters David Guffrey and Joe Walker explored the following:
- How to provide a comprehensive and accurate inventory of connected medical devices.
- Help teams gain visibility into patch levels, utilization trends, procurement planning and more.
- Learn how actionable insights support smarter decisions for biomedical engineering technicians.
- Enhancing Biomedical Device Security and Patient Safety with Claroty.
Attendees were also able to submit questions to the presenter for additional insights. The webinar is ACI-approved for CEU credit.
The webinar was sponsored by Claroty and 75 healthcare professionals tuned in for the live presentation. A recording of the webinar is available for on-demand viewing at WebinarWednesday.live.
Don Bass, who works in the biomedical engineering department at Jackson Park Hospital & Medical Center in Illinois won a Swiss Force Meister Multi-Tool.
Attendees provided feedback via a survey that asked “Excluding CE credits, why do you attend Webinar Wednesday?”
“To stay informed and updated on changes in the medical field biological equipment testing,” said Martin O’Brien, biomedical technician instructor, RTS-Medical
“To stay as current as I can on HTM topics,” said Gerald McNeil, BMET III, GE Healthcare.
“Nowadays, AI is booming, and AI is integrated into our medical devices. This trend exposes our devices’ cybersecurity vulnerability to outside and inside. Thus, I need to know how I can prevent any future threats by attending this type of webinars,” said Tedd Koh, MET, Olive View UCLA Medical Center.
“I attend to expand my BMET knowledge and for exposure to topics and modalities I’m not too familiar with,” said Charitable Roosevelt, BMET, Endeavor IO.
For more information, including details about upcoming webinars, visit WebinarWednesday.live.
