Remember the Y2k “bug”? A while back, a reader asked about the potential impact when daylight-savings time starts earlier than usual
in the US come 2007. I remember the stories about the pending
legislation, but haven't really heard anything about it from vendors or
anyone else. Of course, any medical device that generates data for a
clinical record, either […]
Cisco is touting Sweden's largest hospital as medical grade network showcase. So far Karolinska University Hospital
has simply hooked up remote sites and deployed a WLAN (800 access
points). No advanced features are reported, but they mention plans for
video conferencing, and VoIP wireless phones.
Karolinska, which is a world leader in cancer research and treatment,
is using the Cisco […]
Wi-Fi Planet has a story on the wireless market for ambulances. Cellular/Wi-Fi gateway vendor In Motion Technology is profiled; competitors Verilink and Cisco are mentioned.
This story
in the Chicago Tribune describes how new wireless implantable
defibrillators benefit patient's peace of mind. Nice publicity for Guidant, Biotronik and contract R&D shop nPhase. You can find more posts on this application under Wireless Sensors.
[Hat tip: iHealthBeat]
In a move that furthers their plan to turn Winnipeg into a BioMed City, the Canadian National Research Council has opened the $12 million four-story NRC Centre for the Commercialization of Biomedical Technology.
Paul Kelly on the Biomed Listserv pointed out this article in NetworkWorld on medical device software patches.
For years, manufacturers had been telling customers that they couldn't
provide timely patches because the U.S. regulatory body in charge of
medical-device safety, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had to
approve the software fixes first in a lengthy inspection process.
But inquiries […]
The Healthcare IT Guy, Shahid Shah, has an interesting post on a story in Business 2.0 magazine.
In this story, the writer interviewed a variety of venture capitalists
about, “business ideas they're dying to bankroll.” The business
idea that caught Shahid's attention was the one on home patient
monitoring network for recuperating hospital patients (for which the VC
is […]
Graham at Over My Med Body is hosting this weeks Grand Rounds.
The theme of course is Thanksgiving. Be sure to check out this weeks
installment - Graham's blog is exceptionally well designed (or at least
I think so) and worth the look just on that basis.
IntelliDOT Corporation, a meds administration and workflow automation vendor, today announced that the company
has signed a three-year agreement with Novation, the supply company of
VHA Inc. and the University HealthSystem Consortium. Under terms of the
agreement, IntelliDOT will provide discounts on its handheld bedside
scanning technology, the CAREt(TM) System, to the health care alliances'
member hospitals.
Automated meds administration systems […]
The LA Times publishes a story
that Los Angeles area hospitals regularly sends homeless patients by
taxi to skid row when there is nowhere else to discharge them.
Officials at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, Kaiser Permanente
West Los Angeles and Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center said
the practice is necessary because skid row is the only place in
Southern […]
