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Paubox’s 2025 Healthcare Email Security Report, sourced from HHS Office for Civil Rights breach data, highlights how email remains the leading attack vector. ??

As technology advances and workforce shortages grow, ongoing training is essential for HTM professionals to bridge the skills gap and keep pace with industry demands. In this Q&A, John C. Loyack at North Carolina Community College System discusses the biggest obstacles facing HTM and biomedical engineering professionals, the technical skills in highest demand, and how training programs—including those developed in collaboration with industry—are helping to close workforce gaps.

The FDA determined that the company has submitted copied, falsified, or otherwise invalid data in submissions to the agency. The FDA urges medical device sponsors to scrutinize third-party testing labs and independently verify submitted data.

The facility’s founder and three others face charges following the fatal explosion of a hyperbaric chamber at The Oxford Center in Troy, Mich, in January.

TMA Systems, specializing in enterprise asset and maintenance management software, has acquired EQ2, LLC, a provider of computerized maintenance management systems tailored for healthcare organizations to manage their clinical assets and facility equipment. “Joining forces with TMA Systems represents a powerful opportunity to expand our impact in the healthcare sector,” says Navneet Agarwal, general manager and chief technology officer of EQ2.

Siemens Healthineers has received FDA clearance for its Naeotom Alpha class of photon-counting computed tomography (CT) scanners. The class includes two dual-source scanners and a single-source photon-counting CT scanner.

GE HealthCare announced its new Genesis solutions, a portfolio of cloud enterprise imaging software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions. Four features will be offered when commercially released: edge, storage, vendor neutral archive, and data migration.

AI is streamlining maintenance and predicting failures before they happen. But without the right safeguards, it could create more problems than it solves. Dan Miles, senior director of technology systems at Crothall Healthcare, shares his perspective on where AI is making an impact, where it could go wrong, and how healthcare organizations can adopt it responsibly.

Biomedical engineers have repaired 484 medical devices in Nepal’s government hospitals as part of an initiative launched last August with the National Innovation Center Nepal.

Asimily announced the launch of its IoT Patching solution, enabling customers to automate, standardize, and streamline firmware updates across their connected device ecosystems.