iHealth Beat reports (registration required) on a new study about the impact of CPOE on patient safety.
Researchers looked at 937 admissions and found 483 clinically significant adverse drug events, Reuters Health reports. Nine percent of those errors caused serious harm, and 33% resulted in further monitoring or interventions. Sixty-one percent of errors took place during […]
Thanks to Patrick Lynch, from Northside Hospital, Atlanda, for this report from the show:
It was the best AAMI I've been to in a while. Being an older biomed, all of the equipment vendors were getting stale - same ole, same ole. But this year there was lots of new tension. IT, indoor positioning, who are […]
There was some discussion on the Biomed listserv today about support contract pricing that vendors are charging. Comparisons were made between the percentage of the list price for annual support contracts for hardware (8% to 12%) and software (20% up to 35%). This is another area where IT and biomed are merging.
Buyer expectations for […]
Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen has gained a reputation for his work on “Disruptive Innovations”:
Christensen's research explains why established companies - even those competently managed by smart people - have such trouble countering or embracing disruptive innovations that are on the horizon.
His theory says that organizations customarily develop mind-sets and processes that revolve around […]
Philips Medical Systems, a division of Royal Philips Electronics, has appointed Brent Shafer as executive vice president and chief executive officer, sales and service region for North America, reporting … [Medical Equipment - Topix.net]
It must be stock option season at Hospira and Datascope. Both companies handed options out to several employees each last week.
According to Health Data Management, CMS details new requirements regarding Business Associates.
The contract between a covered entity and a business associate “must require a business associate to report to the covered entity any security incident of which it becomes aware,” according to the guidance. In the contract, the covered entity and business associate “must document […]
The Joint Commission seems to be trying to extend their franchise a bit with this new site, the Joint Commission International Center for Patient Safety. Most of the content seems to be repurposed from their main site, though.
What is now an important information source for health care news, technology and policy prepares to suffle off to oblivion.
Recently we found out that the American Medical Association decided to make their AMA News online newspaper a subscription based service. The site is bylined as “The Newspaper for America's Physicians”, but in fact it is now […]
Everyone should know by now that Philips introduced a new WMTS network for their telemetry system. My first post was back in January, when Philips updated their website. I saw their new smaller telemetry units last week at AAMI/NTI and learned that Philips can currently support up to 512 devices on the network. They have plans […]
