A couple weeks ago I was asked about CVIS market shares and the size of the market. Agfa Heartlab was kind enough to run a print ad in December issue of Cath Lab Digest ranking the top 6 vendors in the CVIS market (from a Frost report):
Company
Market Share (%)
GE Healthcare
27.1
Philips Medical Systems
23.9
Agfa Heartlab
20.3
Witt Biomedical
8.3
Siemens Medical […]
The latest Grand Rounds is up over at Medpundit. Be sure to check it out.
Frequently nursing home patients arrive at the Emergency Department with little or no information, especially if transfers occur after hours when most nursing home staff is unavailable. Here's what the came up with at UTMB:
In the University of Texas Medical Branch hospital ER, the geriatric
clinical nurse specialist and the emergency room clinical nurse
specialist collaborated to […]
ADT Security Services will be releasing a package of services that provide medical monitoring from the home. Press release here.
ADT's
WellHealth product suite is designed to monitor health regimens and
medication through use of digital devices and networks that connect
patients to ADT's Customer Monitoring Centers and, if necessary, a
medical professional. The new products include:
MediHealth, which monitors medication […]
Last year I was introduced to Hoana at the American Association of Critical Care Nurses in Orlando. Scott Christensen explained their innovative sensing technology - aiming to improve patient safety and reduce failures to rescue, Hoana has developed sensor technology that allows them to monitor patient vital signs through the mattress of the patient's bed. […]
MD Buyline's Intelligence Briefings has an interesting story on the ever problematic topic of cell phone interference. Last month, MD Buyline reported on the Mayo Clinic's latest study on cell phone interference (also noted on this site). Their article generated this feedback from MD Buyline reader Terrance Clemans:
After some initial EMC
testing that identified several significant […]
UPI is running a story today about the patient safety risks inhere in some clinical information systems, and making a case for regulatory oversight. The focus of the story is the paper published in Pediatrics about the University of Pittsburg Children's hospital experience with Cerner's PowerOrder CPOE (the new fancy term for “order entry”). In […]
It seems that something like the existing ISO 14971 risk management standard for medical device manufacturers will be used to address networked medical devices. Several major revisions will be required, not the least of which is the kind of risk. The potential harm that ISO 14971 tries to mitigate is risk of injury to patients. […]
Quality Health Systems which operates a virtual ICU at three hospitals in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area is considering expanding its services to other local hospitals.
Quality Health Services officials say they have capacity to add more
hospital beds to their system and that they likely will sell access to
smaller hospitals in southeastern Wisconsin. “We want to identify
interested […]
Grand Rounds 2:12 are up at Pipeline, a Corante weblog. Happy reading!
