The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is holding their annual meeting June 24-26 in Washington D.C. at the venerable Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. I'm going to piggyback the conference with an IHE PCD meeting at NIST that follows AAMI. I'm going to schedule a “meet the bloggers” event some time during AAMI. […]
Content-addressed storage pioneer Paul Carpentier has started a new storage company called Caringo Inc. The company is positioned as providing, “scalable, high-end fixed content storage software, while reducing complexity, vendor lock-in and mounting costs.” Sounds like just the ticket for hospital enterprise storage (you know, like PACS and CVIS). Their new product is called CAStore […]
Jouko Karvinen, chief executive of Philips Medical Systems, said at a recent analyst meeting that they expect profit margins in the Medical Systems division to raise in the second half of the year.
Margins at the unit have lagged those of the company's
main rivals in healthcare and medical technology, which include
Germany's Siemens AG (SI) and […]
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has formed a Medical Devices Working
Group with the objective to enable health-related devices to work with
consumer electronics products (press release). At a Bluetooth SIG meeting last month in Seattle, a group of 19 vendors, including Intel, Philips, and Welch Allyn, agreed towork on a new Bluetooth Medical Device Profile that […]
IBM announced that they've developed a portable programmer for implantable heart devices for St Jude. The system, called the Merlin Patient Care System, provides a better workflow and more memory - and I'll bet a much lower cost of goods. Here's a summary of the features:
A new user interface that makes the entire system faster […]
