[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":287},["ShallowReactive",2],{"slug-how-technologies-shape-the-future-of-medical-conferences":3},{"post":4,"relatedPosts":176,"relatedBooks":286},{"id":5,"date":6,"date_gmt":7,"guid":8,"modified":10,"modified_gmt":11,"slug":12,"status":13,"type":14,"link":15,"title":16,"content":18,"excerpt":21,"author":23,"featured_media":24,"comment_status":25,"ping_status":25,"sticky":26,"template":27,"format":28,"meta":29,"categories":30,"tags":33,"project_category":41,"contact_email_category":42,"yst_prominent_words":43,"class_list":57,"better_featured_image":73,"acf":111,"yoast_meta":120,"_links":123},12811,"2017-12-07T17:30:11","2017-12-07T15:30:11",{"rendered":9},"http:\u002F\u002Fthemedicalfuturist.melkweg.hu\u002F?p=12811","2022-05-18T13:15:19","2022-05-18T11:15:19","how-technologies-shape-the-future-of-medical-conferences","publish","post","https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fhow-technologies-shape-the-future-of-medical-conferences",{"rendered":17},"How Technologies Shape The Future Of Medical Conferences",{"rendered":19,"protected":20},"\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"5px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp style=\"color: #555;font-size: 12px;line-height: 14px\">THIS ARTICLE HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2017. THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\u003C\u002Ftbody>\u003C\u002Ftable>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I have attended more than 400 conferences that were devoted to medicine and healthcare, and I can count the great ones on one hand. Terribly visualised presentations, new ideas in old shapes, delays, bad organizing, lack of guest engagement. How come medical event organizers do not make the most out of digital technology? How come they do not follow the ever-changing needs of guests and visitors, let alone patients and doctors? Read on to learn how new technologies and trends are able to catapult any medical event into the 21st century!\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>Medical events should live up to the expectations\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When I arrive at a conference or panel talk, I always hope to take part in a vibrant conversation and leave with insights about how to make the best future for medicine possible. But most events were chock-full of boring speeches delivered in front of bullet-point filled Powerpoints, sounding and feeling the same as talks 20 years ago. As the needs of patients and physicians, as well as guests and visitors, constantly change, so should medical events. But do their organizers realize this?\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Did you know that it’s already possible to use augmented reality during presentations to get across the core message of the talk to audiences better? Are you aware of the potential that virtual reality possesses for medical events and conferences? Do you know how to fully utilize the arsenal of social media to engage your crowd?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best events today are so far away from the average medical conferences as fast-food restaurants from the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.steirereck.at\u002Frestaurant\u002F\">Steirereck\u003C\u002Fa> in Austria.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good examples include \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fmedicinex.stanford.edu\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stanford MedicineX\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.doctors20.com\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors 2.0 and You\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Paris that gather all stakeholders of healthcare and keep the discussion going through social media long after the event has ended. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>1) Engage empowered patients and e-patients!\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Caregivers have ignored the most important stakeholders in healthcare – patients – for too long. This attitude has long been applied also by most event organizers for decades. However, the future of medicine will put patients fully in the center – how can we discuss it without involving them? \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, there are more and more patients who scrupulously research their condition with the help of digital tools, communicate with doctors through every possible communication channel and share their experiences to help other patients navigate the jungle of healthcare. They also expect doctors to treat them as equal partners when designing their treatment and care. These empowered patients can truly shape the future of healthcare. Ideally, they should also be involved in discussions about medicine and new methods of care. Thus, I do not attend medical events anymore not including patients either in the organizing committee or among the speakers. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fonlinelibrary.wiley.com\u002Fdoi\u002F10.1111\u002Fclr.12458_515\u002Ffull\">Data clearly shows\u003C\u002Fa> that patient satisfaction and outcomes skyrocket when we involve empowered patients and e-patients in designing healthcare.\u003C\u002Fspan> Why would that be different in case of medical events?  Luckily, it is getting easier to find conferences with active patient engagement in the organizing board. The \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fpatientsincluded.org\u002F\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patients Included badge\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> helps identify those events where patients take an active part in making it happen. Stanford Medicine X even launched an e-patient ambassador program. Invite, ask, engage them! \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>2) Make attendance captivating through gamification!\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In my home country, talking while eating is considered rude. It took me years to get used to the idea of starting a discussion during lunch and dinner at medical events. It means some people might not be talkative in person due to various reasons, e.g. cultural differences. What’s more, if an event is focused on speakers giving keynotes, workshops and discussions often feel lackluster, with attendees unmotivated to contribute. We could change this by adding proven gamification elements. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are conferences that release mobile apps providing not only \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">program sheets and speaker descriptions, but ways to engage with speakers and network with other attendees. But what if these apps could also contain quizzes, mind-games or features analyzing the attendees’ health from various angles? How fun would it be to compare how many steps you took during visiting a certain medical exhibition or during which presentation was the excitement level – pulse rate – the highest?\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doctors 2.0 and You organized a challenge about which attendee takes the most steps each day and offered prizes. This provided a great icebreaker for attendees wishing to talk. Stanford Medicine X gave out M&Ms with attendee faces printed on, tasking us to find our M&M in others’ hands, this way creating new connections. People like to play – let’s build events that facilitate it!\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002F202559_10150997125114219_680222686_o.jpg\" alt=\"Medicine 2.0 Standord - Medical Events\" class=\"wp-image-12812\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002F202559_10150997125114219_680222686_o.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002F202559_10150997125114219_680222686_o-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002F202559_10150997125114219_680222686_o-512x343.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002F202559_10150997125114219_680222686_o-374x250.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>3) Make participation timeless through social media!\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Previously, when I met peers at an event, we might have found the time to talk, and that was all. Conference organizers work a lot to create great content at an event. But participants should not stop sharing ideas when the event is over. The most innovative medical events stay online even after the physical meetup has wrapped up. Attendees keep on discussing their fields of interest, the questions, and issues raised by using the event’s hashtag.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conferences and events usually have an official hashtag on Twitter and support this idea, integrating easy ways to share and discuss its events. And if they don’t have that yet, they should. Not only is it much more interactive, but organizers would benefit from it as well, since attendees would promote the event to their communities, turning interested bystanders into the next event’s participants. Browse tweet chats of \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fhashtag\u002Fdoctors20\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#doctors20\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fhashtag\u002Fmedx\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">#medx\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to see the effect social media can have on medical events.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"597\" height=\"578\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fscreen-shot-02-16-16-at-07-28-pm.png\" alt=\"Twitter Use After Medical Events\" class=\"wp-image-12813\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fscreen-shot-02-16-16-at-07-28-pm.png 597w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fscreen-shot-02-16-16-at-07-28-pm-512x496.png 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fscreen-shot-02-16-16-at-07-28-pm-258x250.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 597px) 100vw, 597px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>4) VR\u002FAR for better content\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Soon it will not be not enough for speakers to get on the stage with bullet-pointed PowerPoints, while the world is immersing into 3D movies and life-like video games. The appearance of virtual reality and augmented reality in everyday life will raise the bar for presenters.  VR and AR could enhance the content of presentations and visualize ideas which are otherwise difficult to imagine. This is especially important in healthcare, where sometimes it is easier to point to a specific area in the human body than describe it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Imagine an audience and the presenter wearing \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oculus.com\u002F\">Oculus Rift\u003C\u002Fa> or \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.playstation.com\u002Fen-us\u002Fexplore\u002Fplaystation-vr\u002F\">Sony Morpheus\u003C\u002Fa> devices, and a huge VR skull floating around on the stage. All the devices are connected and if you don’t have your headwear, you only see an empty stage. Expert of applying VR in medicine, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002FBrennanSpiegel\">Brennan Spiegel\u003C\u002Fa> and his team already provided a similar experience. He told me that with the help of \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.medscape.com\u002F\">Medscape\u003C\u002Fa> and \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fconfideolabs.com\u002F\">Confideo Labs\u003C\u002Fa> at a \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002FBrennanSpiegel\u002Fstatus\u002F930517608322949120\">#MedEd lecture\u003C\u002Fa> he talked to his colleague, Dr. Lin Chang, who was in “real reality” on the stage, while Spiegel walked around in VR, interacting with the slides and engaging in a conversation about them with other colleagues. A live audience watched the scene all unfold. “I’m convinced this is the future of live stage CME talks.  I will do this again and in full at the Virtual Medicine conference next March at Cedars-Sinai”, added Spiegel. We agree completely!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Another great tool for immersive storytelling is augmented reality. The \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Ftop-9-augmented-reality-companies-healthcare\u002F\">difference \u003C\u002Fa>is that while AR lets users see the real world and projects digital information onto the existing environment, VR shuts out everything else completely and provides an entire simulation. Great Hungarian start-up, \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fprezi.com\u002F\">Prezi \u003C\u002Fa>is working on enhancing its great presentation format with AR. Dr. Robert Sapolsky recently \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ted.com\u002Ftalks\u002Frobert_sapolsky_the_biology_of_our_best_and_worst_selves\">streamed his talk\u003C\u002Fa>, titled \u003Cem>“BEHAVE: The biology of humans at our best and worst”, \u003C\u002Fem>live from the Prezi offices to the Vancouver TED stage using \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fprezi.com\u002Faugmented-reality\u002F\">Prezi AR\u003C\u002Fa>. It is great to see how AR could visualize his message in an active and a more engaging way. We cannot wait to work with Prezi AR on the upcoming presentations of The Medical Futurist!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-ted wp-block-embed-ted wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fembed.ted.com\u002Ftalks\u002Frobert_sapolsky_the_biology_of_our_best_and_worst_selves\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen>\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003C\u002Fdiv>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cstrong>5) Engaging audiences in more exciting ways\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>Social media helps connect us with our peers, but that’s not always enough. There is a reason why they say the “handshake” is missing from social media discussions. However, with live streaming and virtual reality technology entering the mainstream, event organizers could launch live, virtual or collaborative workshops around the world and bring that “handshake” closer. This enables interested people to take part in their events while sitting in their armchairs at home. Moreover, those who cannot afford traveling around the world could still attend important medical meetings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>No matter whether it’s a Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Live or a \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.ustream.tv\u002F\">UStream \u003C\u002Fa>platform – the latter already leveraging on \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ustream.tv\u002Fblog\u002Fstreaming-product-updates\u002Fconvert-video-speech-to-text-with-watson\u002F?itm_source=homepage&itm_medium=onsite&itm_content=Learn_more&itm_campaign=notification_bar\">IBM Watson’s machine learning techniques to generate captions from live speech\u003C\u002Fa>. Plenty of medical events, such as \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fexponential.singularityu.org\u002Fmedicine\u002Fwatch-livestream\u002F\">Exponential Medicine\u003C\u002Fa>, already use live streaming to connect far-away audiences with their content and thus broaden the reach of their conference. We hope that it will become a general rule of thumb.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>VR devices like the \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.oculus.com\u002F\">Oculus Rift\u003C\u002Fa> could also massively increase the scope of an event. They can put participants in touch with experts and “virtual participants” from across the globe, enhancing dialogue and the quality of ideas generated. For example, it was a sensation when on 14 April 2016, the first time in the history of medicine, Shafi Ahmed cancer surgeon performed an operation using a virtual reality camera at the Royal London hospital. Everyone could participate in the operation in real-time through the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.medicalrealities.com\u002F\">Medical Realities website \u003C\u002Fa>and the \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fvrinor.com\u002F\">VR in OR \u003C\u002Fa>app. I hope that the future holds many more events like this – as the potential for doctors, med students or just interested bystanders to learn and experience through this technology is immense!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cfigure class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"870\" height=\"308\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fvirtual-reality-at-medical-events.jpg\" alt=\"Virtual Reality at Medical Events\" class=\"wp-image-12858\" srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fvirtual-reality-at-medical-events.jpg 870w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fvirtual-reality-at-medical-events-768x272.jpg 768w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fvirtual-reality-at-medical-events-512x181.jpg 512w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F03\u002Fvirtual-reality-at-medical-events-458x162.jpg 458w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>These trends and technologies could help change the mindset of both event organizers, physicians, pharma and regulatory agencies attending or organizing medical events. It could bring patients and their caregivers closer. And finally, we could have valuable interactions without geographical or time limitations, massively elevating the impact of each event. Who doesn’t want that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ctable style=\"width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; background-color: #eee; border-top: 4px solid #444;\" cellpadding=\"10px\">\n\u003Ctbody>\n\u003Ctr>\n\u003Ctd style=\"width: 100%;\">\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>At The Medical Futurist, we are building a community for making a bold vision about the future of healthcare reality today.\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ciframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.youtube.com\u002Fembed\u002FFIbMejImnxs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\">\u003C\u002Fiframe>\n\u003Cp>If you’d like to support this mission, we invite you to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">join The Medical Futurist Patreon Community\u003C\u002Fa>. A community of empowered patients, future-oriented healthcare professionals, concerned health policymakers, sensible health tech developers, and enthusiastic medical students. If there were ever a time to join us, it is now. Every contribution, however big or small, powers our research and sustains our future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.patreon.com\u002Fthemedicalfuturist\">\u003Cstrong style=\"background-color: #e71d3299; color: #000;\">Click here to support The Medical Futurist from as little as $3\u003C\u002Fstrong>\u003C\u002Fa> – it only takes a minute. Thank you.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003C\u002Ftd>\n\u003C\u002Ftr>\n\u003C\u002Ftbody>\n\u003C\u002Ftable>\n",false,{"rendered":22,"protected":20},"\u003Cp>I have attended more than 400 conferences that were devoted to medicine and healthcare, and I can count the great ones on one hand. Terribly visualized presentations, new ideas in old shapes, delays, bad organizing, lack of guest engagement. How come medical event organizers do not make the most out of digital technology? 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THE INFORMATION SHARED IN THE ARTICLE WAS ACCURATE AT THE TIME OF ITS PUBLICATION, BUT IT MAY BE OUT OF DATE NOW. \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fmedicalfuturist.com\u002Fmagazine\">BROWSE OUR LATEST ARTICLES HERE\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Fp> \u003C\u002Ftd> \u003C\u002Ftr> \u003C\u002Ftbody> \u003C\u002Ftable> \u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cb>\u003C\u002Fb>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An overwhelming majority of healthcare organizations have been victims of cyber-attacks. As digital health spreads from wearable devices on our body to implantables inside it, cyber threats can become painfully real. What can we do to protect against them today?\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003C!--more-->\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to studies by PWC and the SANS Institute, 94% of healthcare organizations have been victims of a cyber-attack. As we use more and more devices from smartphones to wearable sensors, your online privacy can have a very real impact on our health and well-being. When hacked, even simple wearables can yield private information about our vital signs and reveal personal health problems and insight into our habits (like when we regularly go running) that’s best kept from the public eye. More threatening are the findings of security researchers who managed to prove that a deadly overdose of medication could be administered remotely via a vulnerability in certain insulin pumps. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let’s see the dangers facing our health information, and a few easy tips you can use to boost your privacy levels quickly.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cb>The dangers facing healthcare privacy\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.arxan.com\u002Fsolutions\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fapplication-protection-for-healthcare-and-medical-devices\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arxan recently surveyed\u003C\u002Fa> trends and dangers threatening the privacy of healthcare data. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\u003Cfigure class=\"aligncenter\">\u003Ca class=\"img\" href=\"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.arxan.com\u002Fsolutions\u002Fhealthcare\u002Fapplication-protection-for-healthcare-and-medical-devices\u002F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003Cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"307\" height=\"870\" src=\"https:\u002F\u002F1712507217.rsc.cdn77.org\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F06\u002Farxan_anatomy_of_med_device_attacks.jpg\" alt=\"Arxan_Anatomy_of_Med_Device_Attacks\" class=\"wp-image-13230\"\u002F\u003C\u002Fa srcset=\"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F06\u002Farxan_anatomy_of_med_device_attacks.jpg 307w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F06\u002Farxan_anatomy_of_med_device_attacks-181x512.jpg 181w, https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.medicalfuturist.com\u002Fwp-content\u002Fuploads\u002F2016\u002F06\u002Farxan_anatomy_of_med_device_attacks-88x250.jpg 88w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 307px) 100vw, 307px\" \u002F>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003C\u002Ffigure>\u003C\u002Fdiv>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cb>How to protect healthcare privacy – simple tricks and tips\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luckily, there are a few steps you can take today to protect your health information. Here are the five most important tips and tricks.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1) Two-step verification on social media\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We share a lot of sensitive information on social media with fellow patients and loved ones about our health. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.darkreading.com\u002Fvulnerabilities-and-threats\u002Fsocial-networks-threat-to-security\u002Fd\u002Fd-id\u002F1093707?\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies show that\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fa>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> most of our social media channels are poorly protected by weak passwords. It’s alarming to think how easy it is to learn when we feel ill, received positive results on a test or what side effects we’re suffering from on treatment. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up two-step verification for social media accounts is one of the simplest security tricks, yet it might be the most impactful method for keeping health information private. All the major social media channels allow users to set this additional protection up in seconds. It means knowing my password will not give you access to my profile, as you will also need the code sent to my phone at every login attempt.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\u003Cp>[subscribe image=”false” type=”article-horizontal”]Subscribe to\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>\u003Cb>The Medical Futurist Newsletter\u003Csup>SM\u003C\u002Fsup>\u003C\u002Fb>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>News shaping the future of healthcare\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Advice on taking charge of your health\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>Reviews of the latest health technology\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Cp>[\u002Fsubscribe]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2) Check who you give permission to access your data.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We give permission to access our accounts and information to applications, games and services as if it didn’t matter. It does! With our smartphones and wearables logging our vital signs and physical activities ever more dutifully, it’s easy to leak important information if a service gets hacked, or simply reveal it unknowingly by allowing it to make our data public. Go to mypermissions.org to see what third parties you have already given access to your email address, contact list and more. You can revoke any permissions you don’t like with a click. \u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cspan style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">3) Know who you buy a device from\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">My bank account is probably more interesting than my blood pressure measurements, but there are certain details of my life I don’t want to share with anyone. And there is a bigger chance for a fitness tracker coming out of a garage to get hacked than that with millions of users already. Check the company’s profile, and whether they are HIPAA compliant and\u002For were approved by the FDA.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">4) Harden your passwords\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Old cliché, but according to recent research, it still counts for a majority of people who use passwords that are very easy to crack. You can use tools to \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fpasswordsgenerator.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">create hardened passwords\u003C\u002Fa> and use others to \u003Ca href=\"https:\u002F\u002Flastpass.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep them safe\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5) Don’t just click on it\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If a link in an email or website looks suspicious, it’s best to ignore or report it, as so-called “phishing” attacks have been increasingly used to target healthcare and insurance information. If you hover over the link with your cursor, your web browser will show you the URL behind it. And if it looks bad, please don’t click on it. But even if it looks correct, beware of emails asking you to divulge sensitive account information and ask your service provider’s help desk to clarify why they need you to do so. Cyber-criminals are using increasingly convincing, but fake emails and websites to trick you.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>\n\n\n\n\u003Cp>\u003Cstrong>The simplest trick of all is being vigilant. Constantly look for ways of keeping sensitive information safe and know the risks of being active online. 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