The crew from Lehigh Valley presented their experience creating a telemedicine system called aICU (advanced ICU). John Sokalsky lead off, describing how their aICU concept leverages intensivists and critical care nurses in a remote location to serve more ICU patients. The system improves outcomes and reduces costs - always good things. This system integrated their […]
Steve Merritt kicked things off today with a presentation titled, Integrating Medical Devices into the IT Infrastructure: Pitfalls and Recommendations. Steve provided a fantastic overview of their experience at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. Steve started with the regulatory definition of a medical device:
A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in […]
The IHE PCD crew presented Meeting the Challenges of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. Didi Davis from HIMSS, kicked things off describing the IHE organization, what the IHE does, and how they do it. The IHE takes established standards and through collaboration with interested providers and vendors results in a series of “integration profiles” that specify […]
The day kicked off with a two part session on “Applying Real-Time Integration in the OR.” The presenters started with “blood and guts” anesthesiologist, Warren Sandberg. He noted that the surgery department has limited - and frequently constrained - resources. He described the value of extending data beyond the location
What Sandberg’s describing is more than […]
First up after lunch, “A Prescription for Wireless Anxiety,” presented by Scott Bradley of Draeger and Dave Hoglund with Andrew Corp. Scott related his experience on wireless and risk management at Draeger, especially a market study that Drager underwrote this year. For some time, a major portion of their product strategy has been based on […]
Jon Speer at the Creo Quality blog, sent me a note yesterday about eDrugSearch.com's Healthcare 100, a ranking of the world's top English language blogs in health care and medicine. Jon noted that this site was ranked at 69.
The ranking is based on a quantitative algorithm that looks at Google page rank, Bloglines subscribers, Technorati […]
First up today, the Clinical Engineering Symposium: Medical Device Integration Projects. A panel of rock stars will present case studies on medical device connectivity. Steve Grimes kicked things off to a full house - SRO, actually.
Case Studies from Beth Israel Deaconess
First up will be John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His […]
A while back, I received a pre release copy of Erich Joachimsthaler's Hidden in Plain Sight. I've finished the book and was quite impressed. Joachimsthaler's key concept is, “innovating across behaviors of customers and creating transformative experiences.” While this is just a fancy way to talk about how to better meet market requirements, this […]
GE Carescape is the main focus of a front page story
in Healthcare IT News (dead tree edition that came today). GE
Healthcare brings out the big guns to describe the Carescape solution.
Let's start with the problem as they define it:
Walk – or be wheeled – into any hospital’s emergency or operating room and you’ll likely […]
Outpatient surgery centers are an increasingly important market for vendors, with sales increasing 24.3% from 2001 to 2003. The Health Industry Distributors Association has published a new report on the topic:
“Since 2000, analysts report the number of surgery centers has grown
more than 9 percent each year compared to nearly zero growth for
inpatient hospitals,” said Adam […]
