Disaster recovery is a chaotic and dangerous business. Communications is key. The Advanced Network Technologies division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology has started an interesting program called RFID-Assisted Localization and Communications for First Responders.

InnerWireless Wins Carilion Health System

InnerWireless has won the distributed antenna business at Carilion Health System in Virginia (press release). The agreement covers 3 of its 10 facilities and includes 676 bed Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
Carilion will first utilize the Wireless Utility to enhance 802.11 coverage for
existing clinical applications, handheld devices and PDAs, and to improve cellular applications used by the
hospital […]

Insulet Omni-Pod Wireless Insulin Delivery System

In what is a nice complement to Dexcom's continuous glucose monitor, four year old company Insulet Corp. has a wireless insulin injector called the OmniPod. This privately funded company has raised $120 million in five rounds from a number of top name VCs. The management roster is  populated with an pretty impressive list of medical […]

HIT Spending to Continue Growth

Forrester reports that HIT spending is set to increase by 3.1 percent this year. The bulk of the growth is centered in clinical software in larger hospitals and IDNs. Hospitals are also increasing their investment in data storage. As most hospitals have at least started their adoption of PACS, many are looking at how they […]

RFID in Health Care

Healthcare Informatics has a good piece on RFID, although I would take issue with one of their key premises - namely that RFID prospects in health care mirror those of the larger picture of the technology. As a whole, the RFID industry has seen the vast majority of adoption revolve around passive RFID used to […]

Alaris Wins Big Smart Pump Deal

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has signed an agreement to buy the Alaris system with Guardrails MX software. The pumps also include the optional built in bar code reader for meds administration. Give the many options on their system, the Alaris press release is rather sketchy on what exactly M.D. Anderson bought. No mention is made […]