It seems a critical stakeholder in EMR adoption, patients, has drunk the Kool-Aid. Accenture surveyed (press release) 519 health care consumers (aren't we all health care consumers?) over
the Internet who had seen a general practitioner or medical specialist
in the past 10 years. No other respondent demographics are provided. In
a summary of findings, consumers believe that […]
The Institute of Medicine published a report critical of the safety of medical devices for children and the regulatory oversight provided by the FDA. According to this story (registration required) in the New York Times,
Monitoring of medical devices sold for children must be improved, a
major new report concludes, citing missed opportunities to uncover side
effects and […]
Fibertech Networks, a metropolitan-area network vendor operating in mid-size U.S. cities, announced it has signed nine new contracts in the first half of this
year with major healthcare providers.
Fibertech's footprint (i.e., the geographic area served by Fibertech) includes Hartford, Bridgeport, Stamford and New Haven,
Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Binghamton, White Plains and […]
The idea of the FDA mandating the barcoding of medical devices has
never struck me as particularly good. In the following open letter to
the FDA, Michael Depsey, founder and CTO of Radainse describes why he
thinks it's a bad idea.
Open Letter to FDA
By Michael Dempsey
The Honorable Lester Crawford, Acting Commissioner
Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fisher Lane
Parklawn Bldg., Rm […]
Last month I noted that HIMSS was providing a Legislative Cross-walk (Word document) for tracking and comparing pending national legislation. Now they've added a State Legislation Tracker to track HIT bills in state houses (currently at 98 bills).
Grand Rounds is up for another week of top posts from the health care and medical blog world. Check it out!
Healthcare Informatics Online has a grab bag of new mobile tech in their July issue. Some of these items are just cool devices that could be integrated into an overall solution, like the HP Digital Pen 200. The Symbol 8800 is rather old news, but the writer Frank Jossi,
highlights the health care requirements of “dropability” […]
VeriChip Corp announced that their “Hugs” product, part of a recent acquisition, prevented the abduction of a baby at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina.
On July 15, the Hugs system went into alarm when the infant was
removed from the hospital's seventh-floor nursery. Staff quickly
responded to the “CODE PINK” alert, and security officials thwarted
the abduction, recovered […]
Matthew Holt who writes The Health Care Blog was kind enough to link to one of my posts (and characterized this site as a health care IT blog of note). He linked to this post of my interview with Bill Brook from Children's Memorial Hospital about his experience with InnerWireless. Thanks Matthew!
Profits at GE Healthcare rose 15% for the second quarter, driven by 16% growth in medical imaging orders.
GE Healthcare — the London-based parent of GE Healthcare Technologies
in Waukesha, the former GE Medical Systems — reported revenue of $3.8
billion in the second quarter, up 12 percent compared with $3.4 billion
for the same period a year ago. […]
