Earlier this month the World Health Organization (WHO) released a list of 9 patient safety areas that can impact patient safety. (WHO calls these 9 items “solutions” but they're really not solutions until you actually implement them and apply QI (quality improvement) methods to them.) The items on the list are one's we've seen before […]
In this interview
in Business Week of TI CEO Richard Templeton talks about future
business opportunities for his company. About 40% of TI's sales come
from analog chips rather than the fancy new 45 nanometer DSPs (digital
signal processors), microprocessors and other digital circuits.
Templeton talks about innovation, Apple and the personal computer
industry (as an example of an industry with […]
Vince Kuraitus responds to my previous post, “Impact of Remote Monitoring Still Inconclusive,” and provides an impassioned case to move ahead with the deployment of RPM (remote patient monitoring).
Actually, his position is very similar to the physician's presenting at last week's conference on Rapid Response Systems (RRS) in Pittsburgh. Both RPM and RRS are […]
According to the Washington Business Journal, InforMedix has raised $1.5 million since last fall, in a story of entrepreneurial perseverance.
InforMedix, which has leaned heavily on private sales of its equity for
funding while working to boost its revenue this year, has launched two
private placement rounds since October. In its first, which closed in
February, it raised $865,000, […]
Manhatten Research announced a new release of their Physicians and Emerging Information Technologies advisory service called “Taking the Pulse: U.S. — Physicians and Emerging Information
Technologies,” is based on responses from 1,353 U.S. physicians in the
first quarter of 2007. From the iHealthBeat summary:
According to the survey, physicians are hooked on mobile devices. In
fact, more than 40% […]
Cardinal Health announced today a definitive agreement to acquire VIASYS for $1.5 billion, including the assumption of outstanding debt. Cardinal will make a cash tender offer to acquire all
outstanding shares of VIASYS common stock at a price of $42.75 per
share. (Press release)
With 2006 revenue of $610 million,
VIASYS is a leader in respiratory care, developing and […]
Reader Bernard Farrell (who's got a terrific diabetes oriented blog) ask about my recent slam on USB connectivity for medical devices.
I'm intrigued by your comment “The good news is that USB connectivity is pretty
crude and poorly suited for most medical device connectivity applications and
should be eclipsed by Ethernet and wireless LANs.” Given how successful USB […]
The other day, PACS guru Mike Gray wrote an interesting post on disaster recovery. Between the HIPAA security requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley, hospitals have little choice but to archive data and store a copy off site. Mike takes the concept of backing up data a step farther:
So here is something to consider. Given that you are […]
The Syracuse Post-Standard profiles a Premise Corporation installation at St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center. The story has a nice lead in that set's the stage for Premise's patient flow application:
Monitoring the flow of patients and bed availability in a
busy 431-bed hospital like St. Joseph's Hospital Health
Center, in Syracuse, is akin to managing flight traffic at
an […]
Published studies about studies are sort of a “gimmie” in the academic world - you don't really need to do any research per se, but simply analyze research done by others. This new study titled, “Systematic Review of Home Telemonitoring for Chronic Diseases: The Evidence Base,” is a study of studies. From the abstract:
Results: The […]
