This website is intended to be a conversation - between me and all of you (and amongst yourselves, too. What I put here is not “published” or set in stone, it's not a newsletter, it's a blog. You might read something here that you won't find elsewhere (not for lack of trying - you should […]
Spyglass Consulting has released a new market study on remote monitoring called, Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring. Spyglass creates great market studies that illuminate markets just as they're getting hot. It seems that so many market reports either focus on markets that are too early and undeveloped or markets that are mature and well, boring. […]
Here's an interesting story in the Kansas City Business Journal on the early impacts that open source software and what it might mean for Cerner.
With annual federal health care spending on pace to hit $4 trillion by
2015, “it's a great time for a company like Cerner,” U.S. Sen. Sam
Brownback, R-Kan., said during an […]
Metronic announced FDA approval for the MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Monitor. (Press release)
The MiniMed Paradigm REAL-Time System is made up of two components, a
REAL-Time Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) System, and a MiniMed
Paradigm insulin pump. The REAL-Time CGM System relays glucose
readings every five minutes from a glucose sensor to the insulin […]
At HIMSS this year I had a chance to sit down and chat with Eric Morgan, CEO of StatCom. The patient flow application market segment has recently started to take off. Tele-Tracking is the oldest vendor and marketshare leader. More recent competitors, like StatCom, are persuing different strategies to deliver the most value and gain […]
The holter monitoring company Telzuit has signed an agreement to use Cingular's cellular network to transmit ECG data from their Bio-Patch PDA to Telzuit's new data center. I believe this is the first medical device vendor who's signed with Cingular.
A month ago the company announced that it had secured its first round of
pre-orders […]
Ultra-wideband (UWB) RFID vendor Ubisense has closed a round of funding, raising $3 million.
This financing was supported by existing Ubisense shareholders,
Cambridge Angels and Cambridge Capital Group. Ubisense plans to
increase its investments in product development, and sales and
marketing initiatives to expand its ability to meet the precise
location tracking needs of companies worldwide. Over the past […]
It seems that the Boston Globe is spreading inaccurate info on MIMO (multiple input/output) technology. This from the Boston Globe:
Another caution: avoid MIMO routers. These Multi Input, Multi Output gadgets achieve excellent signal quality and range by hogging the wireless spectrum up to 219 yards away. If you live in the city or suburbs, your […]
The US Patent Office plans to reaffirm all 26 claims of the Visicu patent (No. 6,804,656).
Visicu, which went public last week, said the Patent Office will issue
an ex parte re-examination certificate allowing all 26 of the amended
claims in the company's patent, “System and method for providing
continuous, expert network critical care services from remote
location(s).”
The review […]
The company Intelligent Medical Implants has announced a limited clinical study where previously blind patients were able to discern light and simple patterns. Here's briefly how it works.
IMI's Learning Retinal Implant System replaces the
signal-processing functions of a healthy retina and provides input to
the retinal nerve cells that, in turn, provide
input to the optic nerve and […]
