The Indianapolis Star has a story today about health care IT adoption in the Indianapolis area.
…in the Clarian North Medical Center, a bar-code
system will be used to help make sure the right patient is given the
correct medication. Bar codes placed on nurses' badges, patients'
bracelets and drug packaging all will be tied to an electronic […]
AMI Semiconductor is in the news again, this time with an implantable glucose monitoring system. Glucose monitoring vendor DexCom is using the AMI ultra-low power wireless ASIC system-on-chip. From the press release:
“The wireless frequency band used in this application is the
402-405MHz medical implant communication service (MICS) band, which is
reserved for communication with implantable devices. […]
The journal for the International Anesthesia Research Society, Anesthesia & Analgesia, published a study
(full text $15) done in Stockholm on electromagnetic interference (EMI)
on medical devices. They tested “new” communications technologies like
cell phones (GPRS and UMTS) and wireless LANs (WLANs). The bottom line:
Devices using these technologies can be used safely in critical care
areas and during operations,
but […]
I chatted with Nicholas Cain this morning, Managing Director of Cain Medical.
Cain Medical is based in Paris, also with offices in London. They
provide a server-based medical device connectivity solution. Nicholas
started his firm earlier this year, after spending over a year in
development. Cain Medical is the third vendor in a group including HEI (and their LinkIt) […]
