MCS Health

06/19/2023

We’re excited to share that MCS won an award in the Specialty Campaign Category of the PR Daily Social Media and Digital Awards for a campaign we supported related to home healthcare options. We also received honorable mentions in the Healthcare Marketing Campaign and Media Relations Campaign categories. Read more here:

Join us on June 14 in New York for the Social Media & Digital Awards Luncheon, where we’ll celebrate the best in Social Media and Digital Campaigns of 2022 and 2023. This awards show recognizes the top performers in the industry, showcasing their incredible achievements and contributions to the fi...

05/12/2023

We had a fun time putting our creative skills to the test and painting a shared art piece during our MCS Spring Summit. It was great seeing everyone and collaborating in person. Looking forward to our next in-person MCS get-together!

01/24/2023

Our team kicked off the New Year with a celebration at Natirar! We had a great time seeing everyone in person and putting our cooking skills to the test. We’re excited to see what 2023 has in store for our team!

01/14/2022

It is no longer a question of if AI will play a role in healthcare, it’s how the technology can continuously and ethically be deployed to fill this role. By keeping humans at the heart of health decisions, holding healthtech to the highest standards and ensuring inclusiveness and equity, we can continue to explore the tremendous potential for improving our healthcare system and patient experience through AI.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is already prompting leaders to consider ethical responsibilities and dilemmas of integrating AI more heavily into care, posing questions around maintaining human autonomy, ensuring transparency, and establishing inclusiveness and equity.

12/13/2021

Over the past year (and then some) health systems have had to cope with countless challenges. Elements of digital transformation have appeared across the globe, and in some places, have moved beyond telehealth to encompass data driven decision making. In the year 2022, a few areas that will inevitably become major topics of interest will be: sustainability, health security and life-course approaches to better manage non-communicable diseases. Read more about what to expect in 2022 here:

Health is in the throes of some of the most significant changes as systems reel from a variety of rapidly changing environments. Dr Charles Alessi, Chief Clinical Officer at HIMSS, explores lessons learned, as we look cautiously to a better 2022.

12/07/2021

The World Health Organization answered questions about the most important ethical considerations for AI in healthcare in its recent report “Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Health.” Working towards helping providers make informed medical decisions and helping patients achieve positive outcomes, the recommendations feature how to design safe, transparent and equitable AI products and applications. Check out what specific recommendations the report includes here:

To create equitable AI solutions for health care, developers must constantly be alert for bias in datasets and algorithms.

11/17/2021

Recent research has revealed that software vulnerabilities in medical devices could pose a potential cybersecurity threat to hospitals and patients. While no evidence exists so far, this risk is sparking a broader conversation across sectors in addressing the digitization of patient care.

Researchers say they have found more than a dozen vulnerabilities in software used in medical devices and machinery used in other industries that, if exploited by a hacker, could cause critical equipment such as patient monitors to crash.

11/04/2021

A new consumer-centric approach is paving the way to a new future for designing medical devices focused on the user experience considering both the physical and emotional needs of patients.

Just because something technically does its job doesn’t mean that people will be happy to use it.

11/02/2021

The pandemic has changed the way we work, more specifically, it has brought attention to the mental health and well-being of employees in their current workspace. According to a study, some workers are now turning to for mental health support.

I interviewed Yvette Cameron, Oracle Cloud HCM senior vice-president, to learn more about how technology, artificial intelligence and robots can help workers with their mental health matters and careers.

08/10/2021

In collaboration with virtual reality software company Nanome, Exscalate4Cov hopes to accelerate drug development by utilizing an Oculus headset to visualize molecules in a three-dimensional Space. This has the potential to revolutionize the way in which medications are developed, potentially increasing accuracy and efficacy for future therapies.

Looking at molecules in 3D arms scientists with important information that’s hard to glean from traditional 2D formats.