CardioNet appears to be moving beyond high tech holter monitoring and into ambulatory cardiac monitoring. The new device has be ability to do arrhythmia detection in the sensor (rather than the PDA-like monitor) and transmitting alarms to CardioNet's Monitoring Center that provides 24×7 analysis of alarms and related cardiac rhythms.
The last two pages of the […]
Last month (November) Boston Scientific announced FDA approval of LATITUDE 2.0 Patient Management software with “remote data integration capabilities.”
LATITUDE Patient Management is the first and only remote monitoring
system to provide clinicians with direct device data integration
capability into GE's Centricity Electronic Medical Record (EMR). The
enhanced version of the LATITUDE website also provides increased
efficiencies to clinicians […]
Health Data Management has an article on the use of bar codes and RFID for patient identification, meds admin, blood transfusions, collecting lab specimens, etc. Passive RFID performs better than bar codes - easier to read - but the significant price differential between even 2D bar codes and passive RFID tags will stymie RFID adoption […]
