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Our Connected World and 21st Century Medicine: Report

 

Can your insurance company figure out when to send a nurse to your aging parents living far away? Can a pathologist remotely access their lab results for a second opinion? Should you be worried someone might hack into their medication delivery pump? How is big data being used to develop that medication?

IIT AGNE conducted a fascinating panel discussion on the world of connected devices and big data; the differences they are making in the healthcare community, as well as the new security challenges that arise.

The event which was held on May 21, 2016 at the Cambridge Innovation Center included Moji Kashef, Senior Manager – Software Development / R & D, BD Medical; Yogesh Shinde, Vice President, Technology Engineering, OptumInsight / UnitedHealth Group and Shekhar Wadekar, Managing Member, coSlide LLC.

Moji Kashef started off with a description of the new security challenges that arise when medical devices and software are combined together in novel ways that open up vulnerabilities not seen before. Devices such as insulin pumps and pacemakers are implanted in millions of patients and are accessible to hackers in ways that are unforeseen. Commonly used medical equipment, such as intravenous pumps, is now network enabled to track location and for control.

Panelists:

  • Moji Kashef, Senior Manager – Software Development/R & D, BD Medical
  • Yogesh Shinde, Vice President, Technology Engineering, OptumInsight/UnitedHealth Group
  • Shekhar Wadekar, Managing Member, coSlide LLC

 

 

Brief Bio:

Moji Kashef, Senior Manager – Software Development / R&D, BD Medical
Moji Kashef has held 15+ years of leadership positions in software, test (V & V), system requirements, hardware, configuration and release management, and computer system validation (CSV) on various products. His accomplishments include: Delivery of software for Insulin Delivery Device & BLE enabled handheld controller (Work in progress) including Product Security Assessments, High Volume Automated Assembly System, high volume data analytics and storage system with web portals, High Resolution Vision Inspection System, Lab Automation, X-Ray Fluorescent elemental analysis instruments, medical visualization platform with single use endoscopy device, VoIP Media Gateway, Storage Network Processor, Airline Baggage Image-Screening Security, and various networking and connectivity architectures  (IoT). Moji has extensive working experience in establishing quality processes for Design Controls, Phased/Gated Development Life Cycle, FMEAs, vendor audits, CMMI, AAMI IEC 62304:2006, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, 21 CFR Part 11.

Yogesh Shinde, Vice President, Technology Engineering, OptumInsight / UnitedHealth Group
Yogesh Shinde has been working in the Healthcare Industry for over 8 years, leading software product development for  Healthcare applications at Optum including Analytics and other applications. Over these 8 years Yogesh has observed the industry significantly transform with significant adoption of EMRs, population health analytics, and coming together of Provider and Payers through ACO and other Risk Based models. All of this with significant contribution from software and other technologies including Mobile, Big Data and Cloud Computing.
Shekhar Wadekar, Managing Member, coSlide LLC
Shekhar Wadekar is the founder of coSlide, LLC, a company developing technology and delivering services for digital telepathology. He has previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of AccelPath, Inc. a company focused on developing unique 3D optical imaging technology and telemedicine workflow. Prior to that he was President and CEO of Traxyz Medical, Inc., a development stage medical device company that successfully developed an FDA approved low cost stereotactic imaging system for breast biopsy localization. Dr. Wadekar served as an equity research analyst for eight years, following the semiconductor industry and was recognized as a Wall Street Journal “All-Star Analyst.” He was involved in numerous IPOs, and private placements for U.S. and Israeli technology companies. Prior to that, Dr. Wadekar was employed at IBM and worked on optical communications. He also was Technical Coordinator of the IBM/Siemens/Toshiba joint development program in semiconductor memory. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Delaware, an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University, and a B. Tech from IIT Bombay in Metallurgical Engineering