Montefiore is extending use of Cardiocom's remote patient monitoring and disease management system with a grant from the New York State Health Department.
The
technology consists of the vendor's Commander device that collects data
from several peripheral monitoring devices, including a scale and blood
pressure monitor. The Commander hooks up to a patient's phone line and
then […]
The competitive and market forces at work today
are causing vendors to move increasingly beyond their core competencies
in order to differentiate their products and meet market requirements. When creating new products, vendors have a wider array of technologies to choose from, and competition between vendors is increasing. In addition, product life cycles are becoming shorter, imitation […]
A4 Health Systems has signed an agreement with New York City Health and Hospitals
Corporation (HHC) to install the HealthMatics Emergency Department
Information System (EDIS) as a pilot implementation at Elmhurst
Hospital. If everything goes well, the system may eventually
be installed in all of HHC's 11 acute care hospitals. HHC handles more than 900,000 adult and
pediatric emergency room […]
BIOTRONIK has announced the market release of their Cylos DR-T pacemaker with “closed loop simulation” and “home monitoring.”
Home Monitoring automatically transmits intracardiac events via
wireless technology allowing the physician to view vital patient
information on a secure website at anytime, from anywhere, within
minutes of the event occurring. In the instance of a cardiac event such
as an atrial […]
VeriChip is planning to raise as much as $45.8 million in a second quarter IPO. To date less than 8,000 people have had the VeriChip tag implanted in their bodies. Numerous press releases from VeriChip have reported active “adoption” of the technology by hospitals.
The company posted a $2.7 million loss last year, but it […]
