Bang & Olufsen's medical division, Medicom, has announced that they will develop a meds compliance product with AstraZeneca (press release). Designed to improve compliance with complex drug regimens, the Helping Hand will be sold through pharmaceutical companies. While reimbursement for such products remains forthcoming, the need is well known:
In a survey conducted in the US […]
Yesterday Datascope launched an HL7 gateway for their Panorama wireless patient monitoring system. The gateway includes an ADT interface to download patient demographics, and the export of vital signs. From the press release:
The Panorama Gateway's unique design incorporates flexible
configuration tools and options, resulting in broad compatibility with
most vendors' HIS/CIS using HL7 version 2.x messaging, the […]
Patent attorney Peter K. Johnson and accountant Kevin N. Hermansen have started the WikiPatents web site. The current beta version of the site is based on a Wiki content management system intended to facilitate the combined brain power many people. The site includes a database of patents (currently all US Patents from 3,930,271 to over […]
Medical Care, the journal of the American Public Health Association published a paper this month on the incremental cost to treat non-urgent outpatients in an emergency department setting versus an outpatient clinic. Using California hospital data submitted to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) between 1990 and 1998 the data were used […]
Another “smart shirt” was presented yesterday at the World Congress of Cardiology, in Barcelona.
A “smart” shirt, incorporating stainless steel threads, has been
developed by European scientists to monitor heart patients on the move.
The shirt is capable of recording an electrocardiogram—a test of
electrical activity of the heart—which is then transmitted over the
mobile phone network to a […]
Business intelligence vendor FDA News has released a new market study targeting “wireless medical technology.” They claim that the market for wireless medical technology will “blaze skyward” growing to $7 billion in the next 5 years (that's a 57.8% annual growth rate). Of course, this is health care where very few markets ever grow at […]
