Trustee magazine tells the tale of patient flow improvement at Lehigh
Valley Hospital and Health Network. The main symptom of problems were
backups in the ED and diversions. Here's what they did to improve
patient throughput:
A “find-a-bed” team converted offices, waiting rooms and storage areas into space for 70 new patient beds
An eight-bed express admission unit was
opened that […]
IMV, new owner of AuntMinnie.com, published a new study on the echo ultrasound market.
“Purchase and upgrade activity in these echo sites is active, with
budgets for both contrast agents and equipment increasing. Nearly half
of the echo labs are improving their current capability, either by
adding new units, replacing old, or updating their current systems. In
addition, echo […]
Frost made their annual Customer Value Enhancements awards. A couple interesting companies made the cut. MedWave is a maker of non invasive direct arterial blood pressure monitoring.
[Hat tip Health IT World News]
Web site surveys can be amusing, and one on Mobile Health Data's site
today caught my attention. Here's the set up (it's not really a
question, is it?):
Enabling
medical devices, such as infusion pumps, electrocardiograph machines
and glucometers, to wirelessly send data to a patient's medical record
or to a physician:
Why wireless? Well, unless you're in the OR or […]
