The 2007 Healthcare Unbound conference was held July 16-17, 2007, at the Marriott San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA.
As I complete the posts about this years terrific Healthcare Unbound conference I will be listing them in this post.
Healthcare Unbound 2007 Kicks Off Jay Srini opens the conference, with opening keynote […]
Titled, Most Hospitals Reject RFID, a CHIME press release announces that, “A recent CHIME survey shows that the vast majority of respondents have
no current plans to implement RFID technology within their organization.” The survey, done last May, gathered responses from 119 CIOs and found:
76% of responding CHIME members reported that their organizations are
not considering using […]
Self proclaimed the, “oldest guy with a computer science degree,” John Rushby with SRI International started the second day with a presentation on Accidental Systems. Using aviation as a model, Rushby discussed interactive complexity and system failures. Exploring the causes of accidents, Rushby noted, “that sufficiently complex systems can produce accidents without a simple cause.” […]
Blogger Bruce Hubbert posts an update on the Cisco wireless LAN problem he called, “the ripple effect.” You can read the original post here. Bruce notes that Partners Healthcare has been struggling with this issue, noting:
…that a fix is forthcoming from Cisco, “They are revamping the behavior
of RRM in the WLC 4.1 Maintenance release.” Which […]
Baxter just can't seem to get a break. Just 4 months after their Colleague pump comes off ship hold (more here), Baxter and the FDA announce new recalls.
The FDA upgraded Baxter's recall of the 3 channel Colleague pump to a Class I recall (the most serious) for a software bug. Here's Baxter's press release and […]
Jay Srini, VP, Emerging Technologies, UPMC and Vince Kuraitis, Principal, Better Health Technologies, opened the conference.
Srini provided an update on the demographic tsunami represented by the aging population. Statistics show health care prevention has not worked. Over the last 10 years there has been a steady increase in obesity and diabetes. This is […]
I arrived in San Francisco last night (July 15) for the Healthcare Unbound conference. The event's at the airport Marriott, which was a nice short shuttle bus ride away. We were dropped off at what appeared to be the rear entrance and were directed to an office in a trailer. Inside was the front desk […]
Okay, I think this blog is back. Since loosing my hard drive and restoring my system I had one last thing to do - get my content management software authenticated by the vendor. That took a while, and I got the code to enter into my system this morning.
Apparently all the posts that I've created […]
Cisco has aggressively marketed their “Medical Grade Network” that promotes the value of managing clinical data (especially from or between medical devices). Many have asked Cisco just what makes a network “medical grade.” When pressed, what was described to me was a mission critical network, which is fine for patient accounting, but inadequate for life […]
Google announced the formation of a Health Advisory Council that includes an eclectic group of health care insiders. The result has been speculation on Google's plans ranging from an application for patients to store their medical information online to the acquisition of an EMR vendor.
The acquisition of an EMR vendor will render Google just another […]
