As a follow on the post EMR Adoption and Medical Device Connectivity, let’s look at connectivity basics and market requirements. We’ll cover some of the basics here, and explore actual connectivity solutions and the state of the art in subsequent posts.
Medical device connectivity has 3 basic components. At minimum, devices themselves must be able to […]
Sharon Mace, MD, Director of the Observation Unit at the Cleveland Clinic kicked off the formal beginning of the conference. They run about 6,000 patients through their 20 bed observation unit at the Cleveland Clinic per year.
Anna Brooks, the Director of Case Management at Sebastian River Medical Center, provided a great overview of the challenges […]
Well, I made it to Las Vegas. My workshop, which focuses on how observation units fit into hospital wide patient flow studies starts in about an hour. Cara Strom has done a great job researching, recruiting and producing the event - and been very patient with me. The following is from the blurb on my […]
HIMSS does not hold their annual meeting just so providers can be led like lambs to the slaughter to the sole benefit of vendors. This is clearly a two-way street. So, here are some thoughts on how hospitals and other health care providers can work trade shows to their advantage. Health care providers spend considerable […]
Major shows like HIMSS are frequently used by vendors to introduce new products, features, and product positioning. This competitive information is valuable and can improve the effectiveness of marketing communications, sales training and sales for the next 12 months. If competitive information is gathered early enough (usually the first day) you can adjust your own […]
Health Management Technology has a story on network management best practices. Applications that demand this kind of management include point of care apps like CPOE, high bandwidth hogs like PACS, and technically demanding apps like wireless VoIP. If you add networked and wireless medical devices to the mix, especially for surveillance or alarm notification, and […]
Associate Brad Sokol sent me a link to a paper on Health Affairs, How Common Are Electronic Health Records In The United States? (abstract)(full pdf). It turns out there are many answers to this question. (The terms EHR and EMR are interchangeable in this post.)
Based on the surveys reviewed in this study, the EMR adoption […]
Vendors
with a large presence at HIMSS start planning for the next year almost as soon
as the current year’s event is complete, so my posts on vendor planning will focus
on things you can pull off between now and February. The first topic we’ll look
at is moving existing sales prospects to the close.
How many sales would […]
Medtronic's Physio-Control division suspended shipments of
external defibrillators and other emergency-response gear indefinitely until quality-control problems at a factory in Redmond are resolved. According to this story in the Seattle Times:
The suspension will address weaknesses in “the overall quality
system” in the Redmond factory that were identified by the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) and the company, Medtronic […]
Big
meetings like the annual HIMSS exhibition provide great opportunities for both
vendors and attendees. Over the next few blog posts, I will be offing up some
thoughts for vendors and attendees on how to wring the greatest benefit from
the next HIMSS conference that’s just one short month away.
It
is the generosity of vendors who make much of […]
