Today marks the official one month birthday of this site. During that time, there have been about 600 visitors and almost 3,000 page views. The average visit length currently stands at an astounding 5 minutes and 20 seconds per visit. You can see my Site Meter here.
Thanks to everyone who's visited. I hope you've found something […]
According to the BBC, the number of NHS operations cancelled at the last minute in English hospitals increased by almost 2,500 at the end of 2004. Between October to December 17,402 operations were cancelled at short notice for “non-clinical” reasons. But have no fear, a health ministry bureaucrat said, “the vast majority of patients were getting faster […]
St. John's Riverside Hospital has selected Emergisoft's ED patient management software. Reading between the lines, EmergisoftED was selected based on proven integration with MEDITECH, price, an in-state reference site, and a released product. The press release intimates that some competitors were proposing unreleased product.
Buying criteria aside, Emergisoft won the business mostly on the strength of its […]
The HIStalk guy was kind enough to allow me a guest appearance on his site. From time to time I get these health care IT wild hairs that just don't fit the patient flow focus of this site. My thanks for the occasional soap box! Visit HIStalk, there's always interesting (and funny) news.
HP/Agilent/Philip's lingering regulatory compliance problem.
This article, in the Lakeland Florida Ledger, is about 20 patients that were diverted from Lakeland Regional Medical Center in just over 6 hours this past Tuesday. Each of these 20 potential admissions represents $50,000 to $75,000 in missed revenue.
The cause for this emergency department overcrowding? A bottleneck in the ICU. This was their first complete […]
April 21, 2005. Will you be ready when the new HIPAA Security compliance deadline hits? Two articles caught my attention this morning, one on how to comply with the new rules, and a survey on progress to date.
The other day someone asked me what a connectologist was. In short, a connectologist is someone with a proficiency in medical connectivity who uses that knowledge to integrate medical devices with clinical information systems to automate workflow. This begs the question, “what is medical connectivity?”
Medical devices have followed a general life cycle, whether a […]
There is an interesting post on HIStalk with some history on Picis, IDX and how Picis has worked with the IDX and other large health care IT vendors. IDX and Picis have been working together for quite some time (mid 90's?). Picis has done very tight integration with IDX Care Cast, Eclipsys CPOE, and McKession Pathways […]
Hill-Rom’s NaviCare patient management software included a number of new things at HIMSS this year. The highlight was the new software release version 6.0 with Care Traffic Control (cute name). Integration with Vocera for both messaging and data capture added demo sizzle, although the ambient noise in the convention center resulted in less than flawless […]
