Yesterday I presented at a workshop in Seattle held by Cardinal Health. The topic was Wireless Infusion Information Technology and was educational - being remarkably free of sales pitches for a vendor event. There were about 17 attendees, which I thought was pretty good for a mid market city like Seattle. I promised the attendees […]
There are a lot of forces driving change in health care. In connectivity, device vendors are looking to workflow automation surrounding the device to grow their business and provide competitive advantage, while health care IT (HIT) vendors look for growth in diagnostic and therapeutic processes closer to the patient. To a great extent, they're going […]
Prompted by the construction of a new hospital, the Children's Hospital in Denver is installing a new enterprise-wide network. The project will link 11 Childrens Care centers, 2 other campus facilities, 400 outreach
clinics, and 1.44 million square feet in a new 10 story 236 bed hospital
building. The deployment will include 800 access points, 5,000 VoIP […]
Chris Click and Tom Eagle from InnerWireless were kind enough to set up a conference call to update me on their new Spot indoor positioning system.
As they approach GA (that's “general availability” in vendor-speak),
InnerWireless has a total of 3 beta sites. Here's a quick run down:
St Lukes Hospital in Kansas City - this is […]
A number of readers have been thoughtful enough to tell me of some text getting covered or cut off by the right hand column. I've deleted the “Yesterday's Top 5 Links” box (it was sort of boring anyway) and republished the home page. That should fix the problem. The roll over link score from My […]
A friend passed along this link to a job opening today. The reason I’m bringing it up is because I think it represents a job of increasing importance in health care - in both provider organizations and vendors.
The position requires, “a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical or Clinical Engineering or related field and a minimum of […]
There's a huge, mostly unmet, market requirement for low acuity patient monitoring. Much of this is driven by JCAHO's recent focus on pain management. A lot of hospitals were receiving poor patient evaluations regarding pain management on general nusing units. In response, hospitals have increased their administration of pain meds; but when you increase therapies […]
Cardinal Health today announced that they are acquiring Care Fusion. While terms of the deal were not announced, it highlights a number of interesting things going on in the industry. According to some folks I talked to at Cardinal, the purchase is intended to round out barcode validation at point of care, to support EMAR […]
What with all the posts this week on point of care devices and cell phones, I thought I'd do something besides complain about lousy point of care computing devices. So here are my must-have features for a point of care device that I think hospitals would actually buy. First let's define the type of […]
Advance for Nurse Practitioners has a story on cell phone interference. The bottom line: cell phones are pretty okay, just keep them 3 feet away from a medical device.
Actually, it's not really that simple. The story goes on to recount the following horrors:
You don't need to imagine. Read “Don't Answer That Cell Phone!” in […]
