The IHE (Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise) has a domain for medical devices called the PCD for Patient Care Device. IHE facilitates the use and validation of established standards like HL7, and DICOM to achieve a degree of plug and play integration between medical devices and information systems. This month's issue of 24×7 magazine has a […]
Ekahau has released a new RFID tag called the T-301. This new tag is 40% smaller than their previous tags and includes a tamper switch that sounds an alarm if someone tries to remove the tag. Like previous tags, the T-301 includes a motion sensor that turns off the sensor's radio when not in motion. […]
Facing soaring costs and an aging population, Medicare is looking to control costs ($333 billion in 2005) by tightening reimbursement on the $87 billion per year
medical device industry by requiring companies to prove that new products
have greater benefits and are worth higher payments than older ones. From this Miami Herald story:
In the past two years, […]
With 80% of health care spending going to care for the chronically ill, and cell phones outnumbering land lines (184 million vs. 176 million), the founders of BeWell Mobile saw a market opportunity. BeWell Mobile has developed a software platform for what they call, “patient engagement.” Here's an overview of the platform:
Web Portal – […]
A Radianse indoor positioning system (IPS) was originally deployed as a pilot at Brigham & Women's Hospital (BWH) to cover nine cardiac
care units, six cardiac operating rooms and the connecting common
areas, and the portals of the Radiology, Cath Lab and post-anesthesia
care units. The pilot resulted in a 50% reduction in losses of the pilot's tracked
equipment, […]
I'll meet anyone who wants to get together and chat Sunday evening at 7pm in Harry's Pub at the Wardman Park Marriott (after the Exhibits close). Everyone's welcome.
There are lots of interesting sessions on the agenda, and the following are a few that caught my eye. I noted with a chuckle that there's a […]
I'll be presenting at an after-conference workshop at the Healthcare Unbound Conference in Boston, July 17-18, 2006. The workshop is titled, Digital Homes and Smart Phones: Emerging Clinical and Business Models on the afternoon of the 18th. Here's a blurb from the conference brochure (pdf):
Consumer health care technologies are driving opportunities to serve patients in […]
What is it with tablet PCs and vendors, especially Microsoft? Hmm, tablet PCs never earned broad market adoption… so let's try small tablets! Hmm, we can't call them tablets… let's give them a cool 3, no 4 letter acronym instead!
This story sounds the death knell (already) for the Microsoft Origami ultra-mobile PC (UPMC). Common […]
This hospital design article explores what it means to design in flexibility, especially regarding cost and time trade-offs. There is a nice discussion of acuity adaptable rooms:
The discussion of flexibility in
design and time is really explored as the research of acuity-adaptable
and universal rooms is further developed. This subject has been debated
for the past 15 years […]
How's that for a marketing tag line? The company associated with this tag line, Impluse Monitoring, just closed $9 million in Series A funding. The company provides a
monitoring service that alerts surgeons during a procedure if a patient
shows signs of nerve or vascular distress on the operating table.
In
neurophysiological monitoring, a technician places electrodes on a
patient […]
