A flurry of press releases over the weekend caught my eye, announcing that the FDA has given pre market approval to GE for their CARESCAPE Patient Data Module. Naturally curious, I started poking around. First things first; the CARESCAPE Patient Data Module is apparently a battery powered data capture device that is somehow attached to […]
At the AACN/NTI, Welch Allyn launched the alarm notification system that was shown for the first time at HIMSS in New Orleans. Alarm notification has been a persistent patient safety issue of such magnitude that the Joint Commission added it to their National Patient Safety Goals in 2003 and 2004.
Conventional alarm notification can be […]
The summer is shaping up to be a busy one. Next month, I'll be presenting at the AAMI meeting in Boston on the topic of Point of Care Automation - with clinical engineering icon, Yadin David. There are a number of very interesting sessions scheduled on connectivity, systems integration and patient safety. This is always […]
Overall patient safety in hospitals is not improving. The latest HealthGrades report on patient safety in U.S. hospitals showed the PSI (AHRQ’s patient safety index) rate increased 8% between 2003 and 2005 (more here). The lack of significant progress with patient safety has caused some to ask why payors reimburse hospitals for the additional care […]
Mike Gray continues to evangelize DICOM Archives (his latest here and here-registration required) - which I think has interesting parallels with medical devices at the point of care.
Imaging modalities are obviously the medical devices, similar to patient monitors, point of care diagnostics, pumps, vents, etc. at the point of care. The Picture Archiving and […]
Vince Kuraitis is burning up the blogosphere with more great posts on his blog. The latest to catch my eye was the announcement that Qualcomm made during the ATA (American Telemedicine Association) meeting this month in Nashville, that they are creating a health care MVNO to be called LifeComm. An MVNO is a Mobile Virtual […]
I came across this company, Fractal Antenna Systems today in the RFID related info-stream. Fractal antennas are both smaller and more powerful than conventional antennas, and well suited for embedded systems like medical devices. Fractal antennas have two basic advantages, they are equally effective over a wide frequency range (conventional antennas' length determines the frequency […]
I noted the other day that fellow blogger Shahid Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy, had a post on a free scanner for detecting the use of USB drives on your network. The tool he mentions is called Endpoint Scan, and has some very powerful features - be sure to read his post (you can see […]
Philips Consumer Healthcare Solutions and Misys have announced that they, “intend to to develop an integrated software platform that enables homecare
agencies to provide high quality care to chronically ill patients,
while benefiting from operational efficiencies in monitoring and
managing their patients’ health status.” (Philips press release) The collaboration will be non-exclusive.
Targeting the home health care agency market, […]
Mobile computing and RFID vendor InfoLogix acquired AMT Systems for an undisclosed sum. (Press release)
“With 15 years of continued research and development, we’ve grown our
healthcare mobility and RFID solutions into a multi-million dollar
business,” says Todd Stewart, Vice President of Business Development at
AMTSystems. “InfoLogix’s market penetration and breadth of services
will enable these cutting-edge solutions to reach […]
