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 […]
I was cleaning out the inbox this afternoon. An email promoting the upcoming AAHSA conference sported a big bile-colored text box with the following:
Calling All
BloggersHelp create the future of aging services by sharing your
Annual Meeting experience through your blog. Write about your thoughts,
perspectives and share what you learned at AAHSA's annual meeting.
Bring your own […]
I found a blog reader’s email in my inbox this morning. It seems not everyone at his hospital is keen on investing in medical device connectivity. He wrote about a near term need for connectivity to a planned EMR. Sadly, medical device connectivity is sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of EMR deployments, frequently an afterthought […]
CMS has announced plans to launch a database to compare the quality and price of health care services for Medicare beneficiaries (Health Data Management story).
The
Performance Measurement and Reporting System will be designed to offer
physician-level performance results via a Web site and other methods of
data dissemination. CMS will analyze deidentified Medicare claims to
determine performance, as well […]
Modern Healthcare reports that the Joint Commission is piloting the Wiki concept for collaboration on health care topics.
The commission's motivation was to create a space where healthcare
providers, administrators, researchers and other professionals could
develop a collaborative environment and share ideas, said Jerod Loeb,
executive vice president of quality measurements and research for the
Joint Commission department of health […]
