I’ve tried my best to keep this site free of “corporate speak” and stick to providing news, analysis, speculation and opinion on workflow automation in health care, medical device connectivity and related topics.
Most websites have terms of use, and in general they’re upheld by the courts. So here are the Terms of Use for this […]
Privacy is important to everyone, and since sites like this one are new to the health care market I thought I’d post a Privacy Policy for the site.
Public Nature of Content Submitted to This Site
The nature of blogging is to reach and interact with a public audience. Please be aware that any information that […]
Well, that's it for me for the week. Posting will be light next week as I'm taking some time off. Over the next week or two, you can expect some changes to the site - hopefully improvements, but I'll have to depend on you to let me know about that. Thanks to everyone who's visited […]
Here's an interview of The Healthcare IT Guy at backbone media, a web marketing firm. Shahid gives the health care IT vendors some grief for not getting with the blog program, and rightly so. Although I can understand why FDA regulated companies have yet to attempt blogging. The FDA considers anything published by a regulated […]
After FDA approval in November, 2005, Endosure sensors are now being implanted in patients a the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston.
Abdominal aortic aneurysms are the third leading cause of sudden
death in elderly U.S. men and the 13th leading cause of death in the
United States.
The device, made by CardioMEMS Inc., is […]
Patient tracking is a key challenge in responding to mass casualty situations, as described in this press release. (Emphasis mine.)
In the event of an earthquake or train derailment that results
in mass casualties, hospitals are confronted with simultaneously treating
hundreds of patients with varying degrees of injuries. To meet the challenge
of managing patients, […]
HIMSS, in conjunction with the Center for Health Information and Decision Systems at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, has released a new web site that tracks more than 500 community health data sharing projects in the US. Known as the “HIT Dashboard” and based on almost a years worth of […]
I guess this is the start of the “year in review” stories. Here's the first, on the legislative progress of HIT.
Technology Daily notes that while 20 bills with health IT
components were introduced this year in Congress, substantial progress
has been slow. Congress in a conference report for the Labor, HHS and
Education appropriations bill (HR 3010) authorized […]
Hospital CIOs are constantly working to break down barriers between point solutions to bring enterprise-wide solutions to technology acquisition, deployment, and most importantly, ongoing management. Years ago the challenge was the proliferation of departmental information systems, then referred to as “islands of information.” One of today's challenges is the proliferation of various wireless technologies, including […]
CAN has been around for some time, not as long as the Medical Information Buss (MIB) now known as IEEE 1073. CAN was developed to provide communications and control between safety-critical devices in a variety of industries. From the CAN website's page on medical devices:
As far back
as the early 1990s, the flexibility, robustness, reliability and
reasonable […]
