Health care marketing services firm, Envision Solutions, has announced the release of the first comprehensive report on healthcare blogs. This 110-page
report focuses on how blogs have influenced major players
in the healthcare industry, including patients, medical professionals,
pharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations. Given the interesting content of this study, I'll bet as many bloggers buy this as […]
Health Data Management has an interesting story about the adoption of tablet PCs in health care.
But
Susquehanna's Tablet PCs aren't mobile so much as portable. The
delivery system has mounted the devices on carts from Ergotron Inc.,
St. Paul, Minn. The Tablet PCs can be used on their own, but nurses
prefer to have the storage space the carts […]
Remote ICU monitoring company Visicu came out with a bang yesterday, as the stock, priced at $16 rose to $25 in the first 10 minutes of trading. The stock closed the day at $24.78, raising more than $100 million for the company.
The closing price valued the company, launched in 1998 by two Johns
Hopkins […]
OQO has released a tablet edition of their pocketable Windows PC - or UMPC (ultra mobile personal computer) as The hand held computer now sports Windows XP Tablet Edition and a touchscreen, a larger 30GB hard drive, and USB 2.0 support. Here's a blurb on Gizmodo, and review at TrustedReviews. Here's some good context from […]
I wrote a while back that ARM and Handshake had announced a deal to develop a clockless processor chip. Well, they've announced that the chip is done. The chip, affectionately called the ARM996HS, is intended for embedded systems where low power and very low EMI is critical.
Although reduced power consumption, due to the lack of […]
G2 Microsystems announced last week the release of an active RFID tag that also transmits data from a variety of sensors. This company is different in that they've designed their own chip that's used in their tags, and all they make are tags. Use of the Wi-Fi standard for RTLS will continue to drive specialization […]
My latest column is out on Health-IT World's e-zine. Titled “IT & Biomedical Engineering: Cats & Dogs,” it provides a look at the sometimes tumultuous relationship between these two key groups. I actually did some interviews for this column, and a couple interesting points didn't make it into the piece.
I think it's a given that […]
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 […]
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 […]
