You don't see new patient monitors very often, the barriers to entry are rather steep. But here's one, the Barnev Computerized Labor Monitoring system. Using proprietary ultrasound technology, the system provides continuous measurement of
cervix dilatation and fetal head descent.
Signals from disposable sensors located on the maternal
cervix and fetal head provide objective, continuous and accurate
cervical dilatation […]
Reader Kyle slipped me this URL today, proclaiming 802.11a/g support for Philips patient monitors. Telemetry is not included - you'll still have to buy proprietary WMTS access points that only work with their telemetry monitors. The radios are packaged as “adapters” that fit in the patient monitor enclosures and, “operate wirelessly on the Philips IntelliVue […]
Getting a jump on the competition before HIMSS, Motion Computing announced today the C5 mobile clinical assistant (MCA) tablet computer. The marketing folks are even trying to define their own product category anointing the C5 with its own acronym and referring to their device as, “a new computing category, created by Intel with support from […]
