Frost & Sullivan recently named Cardiopulmonary Corp. as the recipient of the 2006 Global
Excellence of the Year Award in centralized patient monitoring technology. Very few hospitals standardize on one vendor's ventilators. This multi vendor requirement, plus the increased ventilation of patients outside critical care areas, has created a need for a system that provides an […]
Here's an interesting bit of new enabling technology, the Memory Spot.
The experimental chip, developed by the “Memory Spot” research team
at HP Labs, is a memory device based on CMOS (a widely used, low-power
integrated circuit design) and about the size of a grain of rice or
smaller (2 mm to 4 mm square), with a built-in antenna. […]
GE Healthcare recently received FDA clearance for the Engström Carestation ventilator. There are lots of new advanced parameters, and quicker and easier ways to measure existing parameters on the new ventilator. A few things were missing from the press release. There was no mention of the clinical significance of the new capabilities, nor was there […]
According to Tom Blackadar, founder of FitSense Technology, “We're arrogant, selfish, and busy. We got on the technology train very
late. But we control the spending in our country, we don't want to die
early, and we need incredibly simple ways in which we can monitor our
own health, our kids' health, and our parents' health. We need […]
A small study, done by Dr. A Macario and team at Stanford University tested an RFID-based system for detecting sponges left the surgical cavity.
The study looked at how the new device worked for eight patients at
Stanford University Medical Center. Some tagged and non-tagged sponges
were ‘hidden' inside the patient during an operation by one surgeon,
who asked […]
The Billings Clinic, Billings, Montana, is participating in a three-year CMS demonstration project, trying to reduce
costs to Medicare. The project seeks to determine whether spending
more money on preventive care and disease management saves money
overall by preventing hospitalizations. The Billings Clinic project is focused on CHF (chronic heart failure) patients. For patients over 65, CHF is […]
VeriChip has announced that Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey, the largest health
insurer in the state, has agreed to a two-year pilot program of
VeriChip's VeriMed Patient Identification System in conjunction
with Hackensack University Medical Center and its physicians. In this
new test program, participating patients suffering from chronic
diseases would be provided with the VeriChip implantable […]
