Yours truly is quoted in an article in 24×7 Magazine on the need to ensure the integrity of data transmitted via telemedicine. In my mind, telemedicine refers to a connection between health care facilities, where remote resources like specialists, can diagnose and evaluate therapies for patients located at remote facilities. Remote monitoring entails monitoring a […]
This week the FDA issued a call for comments on how the use of a
unique identifier system for medical devices may reduce medical errors, facilitate
device recalls and improve medical device adverse event reporting. You can read the press release here, and the Federal Register text here.
“Much like the bar code […]
I can't just pick on GE, you know. Yesterday Spacelabs Healthcare announced the introduction of 7 new ventilators - with nary a word about connectivity.
In fairness to Blease, I suppose the static installation of ventilators in operating rooms, combined with the maturity and penetration of anesthesia information systems (all using serial interfaces) does not […]
Security advisor columnist Roger Grimes wrote an interesting piece on the evolution of corporate data security. He used Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs as his model. Briefly, here is Grimes’ Hierarchy of Security Needs:
In Stage One, no
one thinks about computer security at all. Passwords are short and
shared logons are common, no firewalls are installed, and the […]
Remember Healtheon, WebMD, the last Internet bubble? (Here are two interesting takes on the bubble, here and here.) Well Marty Wygod got his hands on WebMD, spun it up to a conglomerate that survived off old school businesses like claims processing (Envoy) and practice management (Medical Manager). WebMD became Emdeon, is losing money, and has […]
Yesterday Datascope announced a new connectivity feature called AccuNet (press release). Developed for the Accutorr vital signs monitor, AccuNet is software that runs on Windows PCs, laptops and tablets. The software takes data from the Accutorr monitor via the RS232 serial interface. Then using the wired or wireless network connectivity of the local PC, passes […]
Last week I received a direct mail from ECRI following up from the AAMI meeting, recently held in Washington, DC. (You can read posts from the 2006 AAMI meeting - day one, exhibits, day two, and day three.) Amongst the usual direct mail stuff that merits a glance on the way to the trash can, […]
Back in March, I asked if state Medicaid programs could drive the reimbursement of remote monitoring applications, after Indiana approved reimbursement. In a follow up story, the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette runs a column by Gerard Voland is the dean of the School of
Engineering, Technology and Computer Science at Indiana
University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. While Voland […]
Elizabeth Roop wrote a nice overview of the RFID market in hospitals, quoting from yours truly, John Pantano of Radianse, and Gregg Malkary of Spyglass Consulting Group. This is where I see the sweet spot for RFID:
“Given the inherently mobile nature of healthcare,
RFID offers potential […]
You can find my coverage of the conference at the following links.
Day one coverage is here
Day two coverage is here
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