This is a classic paper from 2000, published by Rosenberg and Watts of the University of Michigan, in the journal Chest. With the recent talk about a potential new JCAHO National Patient Safety Goal for Medical Emergency Teams, and other techniques like house-wide monitoring to avoid ICU readmissions, I thought it would be a good […]
BusinessWeek has a nice write up on Medtronic's SynchroMed II drug infusion system and PDA based Personal Therapy Manager (PTM). (You can read a previous post on PTM here.) The story also touches on competitors Advanced Neuromodulation Systems' Eon, and Cyberonics' VNS. And includes some pricing info:
The PTM doesn't come cheap. Implanting a SynchroMed II
system […]
HemoSense and ZyCare have signed a marketing and distribution agreement to integrate the HemoSense INRatio portable Prothrombin Time/INR testing monitor, and ZyCare's CoagCare remote INR test reporting and dosage
management system for patients on oral anticoagulant therapy.
CoagCare enables healthcare professionals to safely and
cost-effectively monitor patients who use INRatio remotely at home.
After performing a PT/INR test […]
Last week Frost & Sullivan announced that they’re kicking off an “exciting new study” on the state of centralized patient monitoring in the U.S. They’re going to go department by department to analyze centralized patient monitoring in hospitals and ambulatory care. Their goal is to “elucidate key drivers and trends that are transforming the concept […]
