While most stories about remote monitoring focus on reduced admissions for chronically ill patients with co morbidities, here's one that highlights the impact on caregiver productivity.
The
technology has enabled Valley [Home Health and Hospice] to better allocate its resources so
nurses can work more efficiently, says Elaine Davis, telehealth manager.
“We have been able to decrease the amount […]
AT&T runs one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the US - thousands of FreedomLink locations (operated by Wayport) made up of UPS Stores, Barnes and Noble, Caribou Coffee, various airports, and McDonalds hot spots. Currently AT&T offers hot spot access for $1.99 per month to DSL customers - less than Cingular and a lot […]
The left-leaning Institute for Women's Policy Research released a study (funded by the Service Employees International Union) suggesting that the most direct way to solve the hospital nurse shortage is to raise wages.
When nurse wages were increased in 2001 by 2.4 percent after
inflation, hospitals were able to increase their nursing staffs by 9.2
percent in […]
Analogic reports continued growth in the second quarter.
Revenues from continuing operations for the second quarter ended
January 31, 2006, were $100,011,000, compared with the prior year's
second quarter revenues from continuing operations of $76,110,000, an
increase of 31%. Net income from continuing operations for the second
quarter was $9,097,000, or $0.66 per diluted share, compared to a net
loss […]
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Telzuit Medical Technologies announced that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with external counter pulsation (ECP) equipment maker Cardiomedics, for the sale of Telzuit's BioPatch Wireless Holter Monitor System through Cardiomedics' existing sales and marketing channels (press release). Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Here's an additional story from the Orlando Business Journal about Telzuit's […]
Medtronic announced that the OptiVol Fluid Status Monitoring trend data is available via the Medtronic CareLink Network (press release).
“Heart failure is the number one cause of hospital admissions today –
about 1 million annually – mostly as a result of fluid accumulation in
the thorax, otherwise known as decompensation,” said Bruce Wilkoff, MD,
Director of Cardiac Pacing […]
Philips strengthened its position in the cath lab today with the announcement of their acquisition of Witt Biomedical (press release). Along with a hemodynamic recorder, they get one of the best clinical information systems for the cath lab. The deal is valued at $165 million. Philips already has a hemodynamic monitor from their acquisition of […]
Bill Woodson of Sg2 has a short piece in Health Care's Most Wired Magazine on technology planning and the growing impact both IT and clinical factors have on project costs and eventual success. Bill's example is a new 64 slice CT that the radiologists want - that would bring this fictional hospital's PACS and network […]
The short answer? Probably not. How about RFID, wireless medical devices? Amost certainly not.
Most hospital WLAN deployments entail throwing up APs (access points) every 100 meters based on eyeballing a floor plan or running a heat map application (that estimates AP placement). Given the frequent tweaking of AP placement after deployment - even for simple […]
