Kansas based Via Christi is the latest health care delivery system to adopt a remote ICU patient management system. Their $7 million system, dubbed “eCare-ICU” will go live April 4, 2006. They will be serving outlying hospitals in their own system initially, but are also targeting other hospitals. They estimate they will be monitoring 173 […]
The FDA has a program, called The Critical Path to New Medical Products, that will modernize the processes used to take products from “proof of concept” to a released and approved product. The latest step in this project is to identify specific areas or opportunities where improvements can be made (story here).
The Opportunities List outlines […]
This story describes a patient idenfication system implemented to reduce the incidence of operating on the wrong patient.
To help prevent similar mix-ups, Birmingham Heartlands has installed a
patient tracking system in its ear, nose and throat ward. Developed by
Safe Surgery Systems, the system uses radio frequency identification
(RFiD) tags in plastic wristbands to monitor patients' progress through
the […]
This management truism is placed squarely in a hospital context in this column by Tina Foster, in Health Care's Most Wired Magazine (am I the only one who thinks that's a pretty silly name for a magazine?). In my hospital practice, the biggest barrier to operational improvements is the lack of operational data. This lack […]
The state of Indiana will begin providing Medicaid reimbursement for telemedicine consultations starting May 1, 2006.
“It is definitely exciting news. I think that this policy will go a
long way toward increasing adoption among providers,” said Greg Beck,
director of the telemedicine department at Clarian Health Partners.
“Providers will begin to realize this is actually a technology they […]
Reader Steven Hughes, of Boston Pocket PC, notes in a comment to this post that the thumb oriented user interface (pictured right) that I had attributed to Asus is in fact, “a software input panel called DialKeys by Fortune-Fountain it is
currently shipping on several Touch Panel devices like the Fujitsu
P1500 and Sony U series uPCs.”
I […]
Dexcom's stock rose 7 percent Monday on news that the FDA granted 510(k) approval for their STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System.
The Dexcom STS Continuous Glucose Monitoring System device, about the
size of a ballpoint pen cap, is injected into a diabetic's body, on the
arm or the stomach, where it stays near the surface of the skin […]
In recent stories about the current hospital building boom (here, here and here), many factors are mentioned. Aging physical plants, patient flow bottlenecks, and competition for market share are all mentioned as factors, but the prominent reason sites is the aging population. Researchers at the Center for Studying Health System Change did a study to […]
Admittedly a bit off topic, this story in USA Today describes in detail ways in which the military is advancing medicine.
New ways of healing are as much a product of war as are new ways of
killing. To save lives on the battlefield, medical innovations are born
in days rather than in years, military and civilian […]
This is another one of those “Stanford grad finishes school, starts company, raises millions” stories. The entrepreneur in question is 22 years old Elizabeth Holmes, whose company Theranos is developing a device for adverse drug monitoring. This is the second round she's raised, and will go to ramp up manufacturing.
The
company’s device, called Theranos 1.0, works […]
