Interesting new report from Frost. The report provides an analysis that provides manufacturers, end users, and other industry participants with an overview of the latest challenges and activities in Emerging Wireless Technologies for Healthcare Applications.
The report looks very long term, and casts a wide net, looking at ultra wide band (UWB) WLANs, and CDMA2000 (a […]
Siemens, Intel and Fujitsu Siemens Computers announces a pilot installation in a German hospital focused on patient identification. Details are virtually nonexistent.
This is a good overview on current IT salaries and carreer issues. Note, this survey covers IT as a whole with no special focus on health care.
For a mere $60 you too can view the Executive Summary of this report. (Press release here.) Key findings:
The under investment in IT continues (yawn)
EMR adoption will significantly impact current legacy applications
Interoperability concerns, driven by increasing EMR implementation, are impacting ancillary and clinical departments
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has just begun to penetrate the market–fewer than […]
This paper ($30 for full text) looks at how current clinical documentation practices impact inefficiency and poor patient care, and suggests a new framework for designing better software products.
This study ($30 for full text) looks into the factors impacting PDA adoption in health care.
Major barriers to adoption were identified as usability, security concerns, and lack of technical and organizational support. PDAs offer health care practitioners advantages to enhance their clinical practice. However, better designed PDA hardware and software applications, more institutional support, seamless […]
This is another great example that demonstrates the total absence of a silver bullet for realizing patient safety improvements (or patient flow improvements).
“The trick is not to talk about safety but to incorporate it into our daily lives,” said Scott Jones, M.D., professor of surgery at UVMC. Described at the executive briefing by Jones and […]
OSI has announced that they've repurchased 157,000 shares of stock at an average $14.25 per share. The board of directors has authorized the buyback of an additional 1.3 million shares. They must think this is a good investment.
As hospitals struggle with developing wireless networking strategies that span the full range of current and future requirements (you know, like medical devices), some hospitals are offering WiFi Internet access to patients and other hospital visitors. Here's a great post to get you started thinking about the HIPAA implications.
