The big news for StatCom at HIMSS this year was turning 40. In November, StatCom announced that they had sold their 40th patient management software system (sold into 22 health care organizations). At the show, they reported that 3 sites are live and the rest should be live by end of year.
At their booth, StatCom […]
The big Tele-Tracking news at HIMSS was their PDA-based bed board, coincidentally called bedboardmobile. Having developed medical apps for PDAs myself, I was curious how they overcame the issue of limited screen real estate. When I saw a demo, I was pleasantly surprised. Bed management apps already make use of color coding and symbols, an […]
In Glaser and Cooper's HIMSS session, “Clinical Engineering and IT — Partners for Patient Safety and Technology Effectiveness”, one of their examples of CE/IT convergence was the smart connected IV pump. They established the terms Type I for pumps that contain a drug library or formulary, and Type II for pumps with Automated Drug Recognition. […]
Baxter's Colleague CX pump received its 510k about 2 months ago for adding wireless connectivity and monitoring. Using their Patient Care System with the pump, Baxter provides local formulary in the pump (with wireless update), patient context in the pump, pump settings automatically pushed to the pump, and PDA-based alarm management.
Here is a use scenario: […]
Alaris currently has 200 Medley customers (with Guardrails, their smart pump/formulary/anonymous CQI database). At four of them, nurses enter the patient ID through a bubble keypad on the pump so they can pull pump data into their EMR via HL7.
This summer, Alaris will release the ability to establish patient context in the pump via […]
Hospira launched their “smart pump,” made up of wireless pump, patient safety app, and associated server, 18 months ago. Like all the other smart pumps, the customer's formulary is stored in the pump. The MedNet application suite is scheduled to release mid year. Integration with Cerner is expected to release several weeks before a Bridge […]
Well, that’s it for me. I’m back in my room, enjoying a Shiner Bock (a fabulous Texas micro brew) in my jammies writing this post — I’ll forgive just about anything during a hotel stay if they have broadband Internet. I’m leaving tomorrow on a character-building 6am flight. All in all it […]
After my first good nights sleep, I'm all over HIMSS today. Saw the one and only presentation on Patient Flow on the agenda this morning — it was a great session, presented by Eric Rosow with Premise Development. (More on Premise later.)
There's also another blogger posting news from HIMSS this year, the HIStalk guy. Go […]
One of the key barriers to overcoming patient flow bottlenecks is the lack of feedback on what are very fragmented activities and resources that surround the patient. If you can't measure it, how can you manage it?
There are several patient management software vendors. These products tend to focus on bed management or deep departmental features […]
I will be attending HIMSS next week. And thanks to a WLAN provided at the conference, I'll be posting updates to my site of the goings on.
I will be checking out the patient flow sofware apps, wireless patient monitors and point-of-care automation stuff. If you have any suggestions of things to investigate, let me know.
