The other day Health Data Management had an intriguing little story about some decision support software that presents user defined care protocols on Philips Medical Systems' Intellivue patient monitors. There's really not much more in the four sentence story. The story offers a couple links, to the home pages of PMS and Surviving Sepsis advocacy […]
Shahid Shah, the Healthcare IT Guy, was nice enough to gather up the posts that I've done lately on vendor and provider tips for HIMSS.
To complement the compendium of HIMSS tips on his site, I would add a following missive on event coverage.
Gathering information on an event is important for those who can't […]
Well, I'm recovering from a terrible cold, just in time to be healthy for HIMSS in 2 weeks. Hopefully this also means I won't get sick afterwards. I will definitely be traveling with my Purell hand sanitizer - no not to drink but to use after pressing the flesh.
We're close enough to the show to […]
Another mobile router hits the market. The D-Link unit provides a WiFi hotspot by using an EV-DO network card from Verizon or Sprint.
The new DIR-450 is
designed to accept an EVDO card from carriers such as Sprint, Verizon
or Alltel. To make it work, you plug the device into a source of
12-volt power (including from an external […]
Okay, we've got a time and a place: we're shooting for the same time slot as last year - Sunday evening right after the official opening reception at 8:00 pm.
The place will be right across the street from the convention center at a Cajun restaurant and bar called Mulate's, on the corner of Julia […]
The first presenter was Harald Fiedler with Philips Medical Systems,
from my old stomping grounds in Bothell, Washington. His focus was on
lessons that he's learned from remote service implementation. Harald lead off with a truism: you don't know what you don't know. That is so true any time your business takes you outside of your traditional […]
This must be the height of conference season - I'm at another conference this week. Yesterday I presented a 3 hour workshop titled “Understanding How the Introduction of New Equipment Impacts the Networked Customer Environment: Lessons in Connectivity and Security.” Whew! Medical device vendor attendees are well represented here. My interest in the remote service […]
Synova Healthcare announced last week that a Synova subsidiary and development partner BioPad Ltd. successfully produced the initial set of antepartum fetal-movement
monitors for use in their first “in-home” clinical trial. The device is
designed to provide a non-invasive means of monitoring fetal movement
during the last trimester of pregnancy (press release).
The monitoring of fetal movement is […]
24×7 Magazine has published my column “Is ISO/IEEE 11073 a Viable Standard?” in their Soapbox department. The column provides a bit of history, describes the contributions of the 11073 effort, and asks some hard questions about the standard - it's much more coherent than my previous ramblings on the subject.
Bottom line: the time for 11073 […]
VeriChip Corporation has announced that it has obtained the patent for
a portable RFID asset location system. The product combines RFID tagging technology
along with a portable receiver that can enable the tracking of assets
in a fixed setting like a warehouse or building.
The system will utilize portable receivers to collect RFID
messages and identify the unique ID of […]
