Marty Stempniak

Prepare and practice, experts say, but allow room for innovation to respond to a mass casualty event.

Big employers like Boeing and Intel are directly contracting with hospitals in an effort to control health care prices. Some hospital CEOs see direct contracting as the future, while others wonder how they can participate.

Instances of criminals high jacking medical devices — or “medjacking,” as some have dubbed it — are rare. But several experts in the field, representing everyone from NASA to academic medicine, aren’t waiting around for the crime to take hold.