Active RFID vendor SecuriCode was written up in Wireless Healthcare-News today. This U.K. based vendor includes health care as one of a number of vertical markets they go after. The following list of potential RFID applications shows they've done some homework. I have added the tag [software] to bullets below that would require tight […]
The Pew Internet and American Life Project reports that 73% of U.S. adults are Internet users, broadband connectivity lags at 42% of all adults. (Link to report here - pdf.)
The figures represent an increase from 66 percent, or 133 million
adults, in January 2005, according to the Pew Internet and American
Life Project.
In a report Wednesday, Pew […]
Health economist, Jane Sarasohn-Kahn notes today at iHealthBeat, the current turbulence in the remote patient monitoring in a review of Spyglass Consulting's new report (previous post here). Sarasohn-Kahn reports reimbursement, licensure, clinician resistance and lack of demonstrable
return on investment as the most formidable impediments to remote monitoring market adoption.
One service that intrigued Malkary was […]
SAW stands for Surface Acoustic Wave technology that is used in a type of passive RFID tag that's been around since the 1970s. SAW tags use piezoelectric crystals with “reflectors” at predetermined intervals to represent a tag's data. The tags can be read from as far away as 20 meters, and can provide up to […]
In talking with a fellow connectologist today, I realized that the
import of the Hospira/InnerWireless announcement is not apparent to
all.
Current medical device regulatory practice stipulates that when
major components of a regulated system are changed, the system must be
reverified - some might go so far as to revalidate, submit a letter to
file or submit a new […]
Smart pump vendor Hospira is the first infusion pump vendor to validate their medical device on InnerWireless' “Wireless Utility.”
Hospira
MedNet® safety software can communicate over a hospital's wireless
network with modules in Hospira infusion devices, such as Plum A+®
(general infusion), Plum A+®3 (triple-channel), and LifeCare
PCA® (patient-controlled analgesia) medication management systems.
The InnerWireless Medical-grade Wireless Utility is […]
Jack Mason, the master blogger at HealthNex, has organized a group of bloggers to embark on a Blogposium. The goal is to turn our individual blogs into a “collaboration
confederation” that will work together to add dozens of new entries to
the Clinical Informatics Wiki (Clinifowiki), an extension of the Clinical Informatics
Review. This experiment in “collaborative, […]
It's fun to imagine new technologies for health care, especially gadgets like computing devices. Imagine a cell phone that can read and write RFID tags, capture data from medical devices, and run applications on the handset that interact with backend servers. You could do some very interesting things with a phone like this - patient […]
I noticed a strange referrer in my servier logs today that lead me to this paper (pdf here) published in the AAMI Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology journal. In this paper, Ron Snodgrass presents an overview of smart pumps, with a focus on drug errors reduction systems (DERS).
The general purpose pumps of today have served the […]
One of the product managers at Spacelabs was kind enough to call me up the other day and fill me in on their new wireless patient monitors. I've written in the past about their new SL 2400 wireless monitor, and since then, Spacelabs has released the new SL 2600.
First let's talk about the radio. […]
