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Shannon Lantzy
Mar 21, 2024
Adapt threat modeling for AI safety
Threat modeling could be adapted into a process for developing medical AI with safety-by-design Medical AI developers need to create...


Shannon Lantzy
Mar 15, 2024
For regulatory "reliance," separate science from value (a post-IMDRF thought)
International regulators need and want to rely on each other's regulatory decisions for efficiency but don't want to lose sovereign...
Shannon Lantzy
Mar 8, 2024
GenAI is good for Regulators
How are you using GenAI for regulatory strategy, prep, submission, review, and response? GenAI, ChatGPT, LLMs, oh my! I am having a lot...

Shannon Lantzy
Mar 1, 2024
Health cyber innovators: the HSCC Strategic Plan is a gift
HSCC's new strategic plan is a valuable resource for anyone innovating, offering, or buying cybersecurity solutions for healthcare The...
Shannon Lantzy
Feb 23, 2024
Why do amazing innovations fail to gain adoption in healthcare?
Ease of use and usefulness are two strong predictors of adoption, but they're not enough in healthcare. Valuable innovations often go...

Shannon Lantzy
Feb 15, 2024
Innovators, difference-makers: Are you pitching to the right person?
Entrepreneurs and innovators spend a lot of time pitching people on the value of their solution; that time can be deceptively wasteful...
Shannon Lantzy
Feb 6, 2024
“Is this product secure enough?” is the wrong question
The answer is always "it depends." The better question is: "Is this company managing product security well?" If I am a hospital system...
Shannon Lantzy
Feb 1, 2024
Procurement can solve cybersecurity woes
Health system procurement teams, rather than solely IT, hold the keys to solving healthcare cybersecurity. I recently met a tenacious...


Shannon Lantzy
Jan 31, 2024
Thriving Through Organizational Disruption
Organizations change (if they don't they're dying). In the wake of a major reorg, here's how to thrive. FDA just announced that the...
Shannon Lantzy
Jan 25, 2024
Why is helping healthcare so hard?
The healthcare industry is plagued by problems that other industries have already solved. When solution providers try to help, they're...

Shannon Lantzy
Jan 18, 2024
"Crawl, Walk, Run" is for babies; start running now*
People say "crawl, walk, run" to denote a progression of maturity to reach a goal. Institutions are not babies, and executives aren't...

Shannon Lantzy
Jan 11, 2024
Celebrate the wins, both for your team and yourself
Some people (ahem: me) tend to blow past a milestone without fanfare. Celebrating the milestones makes the innovation more delightful...


Shannon Lantzy
Dec 21, 2023
Risk vendors need evidence-based marketing
When your customers can't directly and immediately perceive the value of your product, you need to prove it I was in Vegas to see U2. As...


Shannon Lantzy
Dec 15, 2023
MEDTECH MARKETERS: Quality > Risk
Definition of Risk: The potential for harm. Definition of Quality: A characteristic or attribute. Imagine you’re a seller of a software...

Shannon Lantzy
Dec 14, 2023
Enough is enough: How to do "enough" security to satisfy FDA
How to do enough security to survive and thrive through cybersecurity regulatory review and postmarket surveillance I attended the...
Shannon Lantzy
Dec 7, 2023
Medtech Product Cybersecurity: No Longer the Wild Wild West
It used to be that product security experts needed to convince product developers that security was important to invest in, and that it...
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