Medicare pays hospitals $300 million a year to treat adverse events. Unfortunately for hospitals those payments cover less than a third of the additional treatment costs for patients after an adverse events.
Despite a growing emphasis on preventing medical errors
and paying providers for high-quality care, Medicare pays hospitals a
substantial amount of money for adverse events […]
I was talking with a clinical engineer the other day about the scourge of connectivity, the dongle. Also known as a wart or pustule, this is a wireless radio wrapped in a little box and stuck onto the back of a medical device. Now if you're wirelessly enabling legacy devices (either devices you already own, […]
Biotronik has released a snazzy new ICD (implantable cardioverter defibrillator) that is the first implant to send ECG data automatically when it detects a heart rhythm disorder. Other vendor's products typically transfer data at a predetermined period, like at night as the patient sleeps near a receiver/gateway device. Along with this advancement in implantable sensor […]
