The RFID market in health care has been going through some significant changes, many of which were evident at HIMSS 2007. The latest evidence of evolving business models is the merger announced today between InnerWireless and PanGo (press release).
While styled as a merger, PanGo will be absorbed by InnerWireless with only half of PanGo's […]
I saw the following design concept on Gizmodo today. Intended for use by first responders, the product is made up of (starting upper left and going clockwise) the Paramedic's pad, capsule, electronic band-aid, and personal tag. This page describes each component in detail.
Remember, this is a design concept, not the blueprint for an actual […]
I can't tell you how many visitors have come to my site based on a few posts I wrote about the VA putting Vista Office into the public domain - gobs of them.
Early this afternoon I noteced Google search terms like “Google EMR business model” in my server logs. It wasn't long before I came […]
In health care delivery, the network is a medical device. Okay, not always, but when devices like patient monitors or infusion pumps are connected to a network that carries data critical to patient surveillance or alarm notification, the network is part of the regulated medical device. Now the FDA has been kind enough to mostly […]
Last Friday morning, sometime after 3:30am, my hosting service moved this site to a different DNS (domain name servers that associate URLs with IP addresses). They fumbled the transfer, resulting in none of the other DNS on the Internet pointing to the correct IP address for this site. The correct information finally propagated across DNS […]
In today's Health Affairs, there is an interview of Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor and Mark Smith, California Health Care Foundation President and CEO - I'm not really sure who's interviewing who, but it is very interesting none the less. To set the stage, Christensen defines a disruptive innovation as, “…a technology that […]
It seems the UK's National Health Service will be receiving more attention regarding adverse events and patient safety in the near future. (Bold in the original story.)
Various studies, some using US data, estimate that there is a one in
300 chance of a hospital patient dying as a result of medical error.
One in 10 is estimated […]
I came across some interesting posts in the Biomed Listserv. A biomed from a 250 bed hospital is looking for feedback on GE and Philips telemetry systems. This 260 bed community hospital is going to buy a 12 channel system, and ramp up to about 150 of the devices over the next few years. All […]
Yet another in a string of studies showing the relative safety of cell phones in hospitals has been published. I would stop posting on this if more hospitals would update their cell phone policies; but alas, this is health care.
Once again, Mayo Clinic Proceedings publishes a paper (abstract here) on more tests (as if […]
The FDA has cleared for marketing Baxter's Colleague infusion pump that was the subject of recalls and product seizures in 2005. From the FDA press release:
Confusing display screens, software defects, swollen batteries and other defects
could have resulted in the pumps either shutting down or under- or over-delivering
critical medication and fluids to […]
