While waiting for my flight back from Las Vegas, I ran into an old
friend, Tim Gurno by the slot machines. Tim was the Program Manager on the ultrasound
miniPACS product at ATL Ultrasound (before they were acquired by
Philips) - I was the Product Manager on the project. Since I left
Philips, Tim has become the Philips Ultrasound […]
Great sessions today's at the Urgent Matters Perfecting Patient Flow
conference. Patient flow arose in our consciousness
through the ED. Of course the
cause for most ED patient flow problems lies beyond the ER. Most of
today's presentations dealt with the ED, with some focus on hospital wide
patient flow. I wonder if there should be two
separate tracks, one […]
I'm in Las Vegas tonight, getting ready for the next day and a half
immersed in patient flow. The conference is at the Bellagio (pictured).
I'm staying across the street at Bally's - the rooms are like one third
the price. But, broadband Internet access is $10 and no wireless! Not
quite the amenities of a Courtyard, eh?
If the […]
Here's a story
in the Cincinnati Business Courier about how Cincinnati area hospitals
are adopting IT. The hospital's focus is on patient safety and improved
patient care.
Over the next four years Mercy will spend $37 million on a plan it
calls “clinical informatics”: $23 million for clinical applications and
$14 million for technology infrastructure and equipment.
Among the initiatives […]
OSI has taken all their health care holdings (Spacelabs, Blease
Medical, Dolphin Medical and Osteometer MediTech), created a new
Delaware company called Spacelabs Healthcare Inc., and listed them on
London's AIM. From the press release:
In conjunction with the listing approximately 20% of the shares in
Spacelabs Healthcare were placed with institutional investors raising
approximately $27 million net of expenses. The […]
In a bit of blowing their own horn, Heartlab has issued a press release
noting an award from Frost & Sullivan and highlighting their number
three market share position in the cardiology PACS market.
Frost & Sullivan's 2005 survey of the U.S. Cardiology PACS Market
showed Heartlab as the third largest provider of Cardiology PACS
solutions in the U.S. […]
Be sure to check out Tony Chen's installment of Grand Rounds at hospital impact.
Oops. Wilcox Memorial Hospital on Kauai has the task of notifying 130,000 past and current patients that they have misplaced a computer drive containing private information.
Hospital spokeswoman Lani Yukimura said a backup drive, with files
going back 12 years, was found missing on Oct. 5. Yukimura said
hospital officials do not know if the “thumb drive” […]
Vendor Patient Care Technologies, Inc. garners some press in this short piece in the Atlanta Business Chronicle.
[Nancy] Ponder [United Home Care's Atlanta-based regional director of
operations] predicts such devices will soon be made widely available to
a consumer market with monitoring by a third-party team.
“It's great for people who want to keep tabs on their aging […]
In an effort to spur growth of the open source software movement in health care, IBM has offered access to some 45,000 patents royalty-free for vendors creating software around open source standards.
IBM officials said the move is an effort to spur interoperability
between software systems, which could help hospitals and schools better
integrate patient and student records. […]
