Yours truly was quoted in a HealthLeaders technology story about, you guessed it, medical device connectivity.
Information technology consultant Tim Gee has a nontechnical description of the current state of connecting medical devices to clinical information systems: “It’s a mess.” Not that direct data capture from medical devices is impossible; some hospitals have been exporting data […]
Boston Scientific got some press on their remote monitoring capability.
The LATITUDE patient management system is able to detect clinical
events between a patient's scheduled follow-up visits and then send the
clinical event data directly to the physician.
Over the course of 106,000 monitoring months, and out of a
15,000-patient population with an average follow-up of seven months,
the system […]
Blaming “market turmoil,” Medtronic announced that the delay of their planned spin-off of Physio-Control. Here's their explanation:
The market for these devices — and more sophisticated versions used by
emergency responders and in hospitals — has been in turmoil since
market leader Medtronic Inc. suspended shipments of its products in
January because of quality issues at its Redmond, Wash., […]
Since before I did health care wireless data at AT&T Wireless in the naughties, there were rumors that Verizon would eventually abandon CDMA for a wireless telephony standard that was compatible with their joint venture partner Vodaphone's GSM-based network in Europe. Well it's finally happening.
Currently AT&T and T-Mobile (along with Europe) are running a GSM-based […]
