Grand Rounds 1:53

Grand Rounds is up at Family Medicine Notes.
This marks the first year anniversary of Grand Rounds, and Dr Reider
has collected some great posts for this weeks installment.

GE to Acquire IDX

It's finally happened. GE Healthcare can now add “major player in HIT” to the list of markets it dominates. IDX
shareholders will receive $44 per share (a 25% premium), for a total
cost to GE of $1.2 billion. IDX was the third largest HIT vendor, with
$520 million in revenue in 2004 (based on Healthcare Informatics' Top 100 […]

Marketing Tip for Vendors

Isn't that photo below of the IV pump cool? I think so. Every time I do
a web log post — or a PowerPoint presentation — I check company web
sites for stock photos they make available for the press, sales
prospects, customers looking to justify that upgrade, and others. So
few vendors provide any kind of images (even […]

Why Connect Medical Devices?

Reader Charles F. posits the question above in a recent comment on the post Current State of Medical Device Connectivity. I’ve reproduced his comment in its entirety:
Frequently missing from the device connectivity dialog is the all important question “ok, you’re connected, so what?” If the point is simply to dump device data into a database […]

Johnson Controls Enters Hospital WLAN Installation Business

Baptist Memorial Health Care signed a $6 million deal with Johnson
Controls to install a wireless broad band distribution infrastructure
in 6 of their hospitals over the next 12 months (press release).
The wireless distribution
system will provide wireless coverage throughout Baptist’s six
locations by means of a single broadband infrastructure. The system,
which will be installed in the next 12 […]

Analogic Releases Financial Results

Analogic Corp. announced revenues
and earnings from the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending July 31,
2005. Revenues were down slightly at $101,998,000 with profits up to
$4,287,000 for the forth quarter. Security systems, modalities (CT,
ultrasound, MRI) were up; cardiovascular information systems (CVIS), digital radiography (DR), and patient monitoring were down.
For the year, revenues were up 2.5% […]

PCTS Wins Gilbert Hospital

Just east of Phoenix in East Valley, Gilbert Hospital has purchased Patient Care Technology System's Amelior ED patient care system.

Study Reveals Factor in Significantly Reducing Emergency Room Visits

Boston Red Sox championship games. Yes, a paper
published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine found that emergency
department visits in Boston during last years championship games
declined substantially.

“I have no idea where the patients go, but they don't come into the
emergency room,” said Dr. Alasdair Conn, the ER chief at Massachusetts
General Hospital, which was included in […]

How Is a Clinician Different from an IT Person?

Much humor is based in fact. The following insights, from the anonymous author of the HIStalk blog,
certainly fall into both humor and truth categories. As an aside, the
author has worked in both clinical departments and in IT.

As an IT person,
users can be frustrating, tunnel-vision paper-pushers unwilling to change and
mired in technophobia and their lack of […]

Yablonka Describes the Comer Children's Hospital WLAN Experience

Healthcare’s Most Wired Magazine has published a story by Eric Yablonka, CIO of The University of Chicago Hospitals and Health System (UCHHS — gahzuntite!). Eric is at the forefront of the trend of taking enterprise approaches to what have to date been point solutions. This story describes his experience at Comer Children’s Hospital with InnerWireless […]