For those of us interested in new business models and open source software, Modern Healthcare has a nice overview story the evolving relationship between Medsphere and the open source movement.
On June 26, 2006, Medsphere filed a $50 million, 12-count lawsuit
in Orange County (Calif.) Superior Court against the Shreeves and 20
other unnamed defendants, alleging […]
Many have criticized HealthVault regarding privacy and security concerns, or perceived limitations of HV as a personal health record (PHR). I suspect that HV is challenged more by the market's perception of Microsoft's long running security issues than with any actual shortcomings of that type in HV. And since HV is not a PHR, but […]
Qualcomm released a new 3G chip that supports both EV-DO (Verizon and Sprint) and HSDPA (AT&T and T-Mobile). This will result in radio cards that will run on either technology and provide the greatest choice in selecting carriers.
The chips are apparently targeting laptops and should appear in new laptops by the second quarter of […]
Blog Medical Devices Today did a post last week on the FDA’s adoption of a relatively new software testing technology in the CDRH’s software forensics lab.
In the past year or so, the forensics lab, housed within the Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories, has used high-power instruments and techniques to analyze “source code” in roughly […]
Vince Kuraitus and I have a blog post up at the Center for Connected Health, a division of Partners HealthCare. Titled, What Will Microsoft's HealthVault Mean to the Telehealth Community?, the post explores the role Health Vault's Connection Center software may play in the commoditization of remote monitoring solutions.
Today, telehealth applications are based on point […]
The ventilator market is an interesting one - there are many more vendors than in most other product categories, and greater product differentiation between vendors. This is also a product category where hospitals have, for the most part, been unsuccessful in standardizing on a single vendor.
I came across an interesting ventilator vendor the other day, […]
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that the latest HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study shows that Medicare patients in the “highest-ranked U.S.
hospitals are 71% less likely to die than those who receive care in the
lowest-ranked facilities.”
According to the study, overall mortality rates at the hospitals
decreased by 11.8% from 2004 to 2006. Mortality rates […]
Is there a need to better track the use of medical devices? You bet. Besides tracking implantables for post market surveillance and recalls, tracking medical devices used at the point of care can reduce the risk of infections like methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA) through physical contact and cross contamination. There are no national hospital reporting […]
The HealthVault (HV) beta was launched October 4, 2007. Between the confusion surrounding the launch and work, I've tried to gather some thoughts and get some questions answered.
The launch was a classic Microsoft launch: big, dramatic, expensive, and well executed, right down to the goody bags (you had to be there to get one, […]
Some recent projects have touched on HIPAA lately and I thought I’d post on this Computerworld story about hapless Piedmont Hospital. They were the first hospital in to be audited by the Office of the Inspector General at the department of Health and Human Services for compliance with HIPAA security rules (emphasis mine).
The audit was […]
