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 […]
