Last but not least was Brian Fitzgerald's presentation, “Operating System Updates and Fixes for Computerized Medical Monitoring.” Brian is Deputy Director of the Division of Electrical and Software Engineering at the FDA. He talked about issues revolving around patching software in medical devices, especially patching off the shelf operating system software in response to malicious […]
By now the conference was losing a bit of momentum. I slept in rather than attending the last keynote and scoring a free breakfast. I started the day with “Mobility Architecture: Designing a Mobility Infrastructure” presented by connectologist Dave Hoglund (Johnson Controls) and Milind Parandare (Patni Computer Systems). Their story was, “Guess what? Everything's going […]
Well, NIST is behind me and I'm enjoying a middle seat between to guys, neither of whom is a taking up more than their fair share of space. And with only 3 hours to go, it's time to pick up the AAMI conference where we left off.
The last session of the day was “RF Wireless […]
Day two started bright and early with a breakfast talk sponsored by GE Healthcare. The topic that got me out of bed early was the relationship between IT and biomeds. Some time ago I wrote a post about the efforts GE was offering IT training for biomeds - which is pretty cool. The session this […]
Today was the first day of a 4 day meeting of the IHE PCD planning and technical committees. It's been a productive meeting, with lots of work done in preparation of the Connectathon at next year's HIMSS in New Orleans. I can't really say too much about the actual meeting as there is a process […]
As John Pantano of Radianse noted, “technology has come to health care.” The exhibit floor was notable for the many RFID vendors, and even a connectivity systems integration firm, HCTSI. As is typical for a show with medical device vendors, Emergin was to be found in many booths - Philips, GE, and Cardinal to name […]
I usually avoid keynotes like the plague, but I'm glad I caught this one. Mae Jemison is a polymath (biomedical engineer, physician, astronaut) and expert at reframing assumptions about life and health care in surprising ways. She explored health care, examining the intentions and objectives of the industry, and suggesting alternate metrics of performance. Where […]
Last year Abbott Diagnostics introduced a new portable whole blood testing system, the Precision PCx for the point of care (POC) diagnostics market. Abbott also has a data management system that supports the Precision PCx.
After completing bedside testing, nurses can simply place the Precision PCx™ meter into the optional docking station and the results […]
Distributed antenna system (DAS) vendor MobileAccess, raised $11 million in a round of financing lead by Ziegler Meditech Equity Partners. They're going to use the funds for “aggressive growth” and “undertake a major initiative to further penetrate the healthcare market for wireless information delivery” - no details were provided.
According to the press release, MobileAccess now […]
As wireless proliferates in healthcare, many
IT departments are looking for an enterprise solution that will better
manage RF technologies, improve performance, and
lower operating costs. Distributed antenna systems (DAS) from MobileAccess and others, promise some degree of enterprise management for RF systems.
Last week Health-IT World published another column of mine, this one dealing with DAS and one […]
