After the break, Julian Goldman provided a brief update on the MD PnP program.
First, Goldman presented ways integrated systems can support safety, using examples from non-healthcare applications. The classic example from Goldman’s stump speech is the automotive brake/automatic transmission interlock, an almost universal interoperable safety feature.
Safety Inter-locks
From aviation, the airplane landing gear smart alarm […]
Robert Kolodner MD, is the National Coordinator of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He's the newest and second coordinator charged with the responsibility to facilitate the adoption of health care IT.
Kolodner started his presentation with some sobering patient safety data:
Medical errors are killing more people per year, in the […]
I really couldn't fit the actual title of this event into the title field of my blog software, so I had to wing it. The actual name is:
The Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability and High Confidence Software joint workshop on High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems (HCMDSS) and Medical Device Plug and […]
I was in hog heaven at this year’s AAMI meeting. Connectivity was a major theme, and during every time slot in the program there was at least one presentation dealing with connectivity. During my presentation Monday afternoon, there was one I really wanted to see that dealt with alarm notification.
Lots of discussion centered around the […]
A while back, Masimo acquired a Canadian firm that developed a novel bioacoustic respiratory sensor. The fruits of that acquisition are soon to be on the market (press release). In recent studies, “Masimo Acoustic Respiratory Monitoring technology (ARM) is “at
least as accurate as capnometry” and “significantly more reliable” for
monitoring respiration in spontaneously breathing patients.”
Respiration is […]
Here's another clip from AAMI, this one from the exhibition floor. The Draeger TeleSmart was shown at last year's AAMI. Since then, they've received their 510(k) and released the product; manufacturing is gearing up now, and the product should be shipping later this summer or fall. Jeff gave a quick product presentation/demo that would make […]
Jeff Robbins, CEO of LiveData, talks about his company's participation in the MD PnP program and hopes for a medical device interoperability standard. I caught up with Jeff at AAMI, after his presentation in the ACCE Clinical Engineering Symposium, Saturday morning.
Jeff will also be participating in the joint workshop organized by the MD PnP […]
Lantronix has scored their biggest medical device deal to date, “a custom, battery-operated version of its commercially-available WiBox® 802.11 b/g wireless device server for the manufacturer’s medical point-of-care application.” (press release)
Terms of the agreement include a non-recurring payment and minimum
quantity purchase commitment valued at approximately $360,000 over the
initial 12 months of production and an additional […]
Respironics was showing Respi-Link, remote monitoring capabilities through an RS232 serial port. The biomed must take the device down to their shop and connect it to a computer that runs a special Respironics client. Through this connection, users can download firmware updates and do run some diagnostics. Respironics is using Axeda for this feature, and […]
I saw the new Hospira pump - you know, the one with the funny name (okay, I'm writing this on the plane and can't remember the Symbiq). It has a very nice color touch screen that covers almost the entire front of the device. The device has an 802.11b radio presently, but will have an […]
