This web site was listed in a Healthcare Design Magazine e-newsletter as an RFID information web site for healthcare facilities. I love the URL - www.rfidhealthcare.com - I'm sure there are lots of folks kicking themselves because they didn't think of this URL themselves. Perhaps www.healthcarerfid.com is available? Sadly, no - it just serves up […]
Welch Allyn has joined a list of leading patient monitoring vendors offering Oridion’s miniMedi EtCO2 capnography module (press release). About the only vendor who doesn’t OEM Oridion is GE Healthcare - even some OEM vendors, like Analogic - use Oridion for EtCO2. Since Welch Allyn does not sell high acuity patient monitors (for the ICU […]
The delivery of health care is an inherently mobile activity, with patients moving though the care delivery process and almost all health care workers in constant motion. So it's no wonder that wireless technologies have been adopted with gusto.
Electromagnetic interference (EMI) has been a concern with medical devices since their inception. This EMI can […]
I sat in on the conference call this afternoon on the new HIMSS Leadership Survey for 2007. The survey this year was based on a larger sample (360 respondents) and had some interesting findings. Of course most all the focus of the conference call was on EMR adoption. After about 1% adoption annually between 2002 […]
After reading a previous blog post, Susan Carr, editor for Patient Safety and Quality Healthcare magazine, asked me to write a feature article on monitoring unmonitored patients. The story will focus on increased patient monitoring to reduce adverse events.
I'm shooting for a feature length story, but I need your help. I've got plenty of references […]
According to this story in Modern Healthcare, HealthGrades has released their Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study (pdf press release), and the news is not all good:
But comparing the rates of reported PSIs [that's the AHRQs Patient Safety Indicators] for 2003 and 2005, figures supplied to Modern Healthcare
but not included in the study […]
Matthew Holt as a couple informative stories at Digital Healthcare & Productivity.com (whew, what a mouthful) about RFID adoption in hospitals. His first story asked, “Does Asset Tracking Live Up to the Hype?” Short answer, no.
Even if WiFi is good enough to track equipment and other assets,
there are now a few voices out to deflate […]
I've been receiving an increasing number of queries looking for job candidates. These are naturally medical device connectivity related positions, and in response I've decided to start posting brief job descriptions. These are not advertisements, and I don't receive any remuneration for listing them.
If you are the hiring manager or HR contact shoot me […]
For as long as I've been in the industry, hospitals have on again/off again relationship regarding single vendor solutions versus best of breed. There are clearly advantages to a well designed comprehensive solution with a common user interface that is tightly integrated. Sadly, as markets have advanced and products become more comprehensive, many vendors' solutions […]
The Minneapolis-St Paul Star Tribune has an interesting story on disruptive technology - one of my favorite topics (more here and here). It all starts with the Sony Playstation's new video chips that gave rise in some way to a new laptop sized ultrasound system from GE Healthcare.
To push such product concepts, GE created the […]
