A recent survey of ED docs indicates that they believe that ED overcrowding is getting worse. From the Modern Healthcare story:
In a survey of nearly 1,500 practicing emergency physicians, more than 80% said crowded conditions in their emergency departments had increased either slightly (40.2%) or significantly (42.4%) in the past year, according to a recent […]
Yesterday I came across an eWeek.com story about GE Healthcare and Sprint. There were lots of what marketing folks call “glamor words” but little in the way of substance. After reading another 4 stories here’s what I’ve figured out.
GE Healthcare is taking their proprietary WMTS wireless telemetry, the MobileAccess in-building distributed antenna system (what GE […]
Research firm Arketi sent me a survey on hospital patient flow. Sponsored by patient flow software vendor StatCom, the survey sought to quantify the patient flow problem (how many ED boarders, hours on divert, room turn over times, etc.) and identify the departments contributing to, or ameliorating hospital patient throughput. This will all be good […]
According to this story on CNNMoney.com, “During the first half of 2007 VCs invested $4.8 billion in biotechnology and medical devices.” This is not just a blip on the radar.
Venture cap firms poured $2.6 billion into life sciences during the
first quarter, setting a single-quarter record. In the second quarter
VCs set a record for the number […]
The site bmesource.org is a compendium of web sites with the stated goal of, “sharing knowledge across the biomedical technology design community.” The site was started at Stanford University. In 2003 they opened it up to additional university contributors.
I stumbled across the sites via my server logs that showed a visitor who came from bemesource.org. […]
Goldman Sachs analyst Randall Stanicky, “pointed out that no rival has health care IT offerings as comprehensive as McKesson's.”
“Based on our mapping of McKesson's current health care information
technology offerings and the competitive landscape, we have concluded
that the company has one of the most comprehensive portfolios across
market participants who range from hospitals, physicians, payors and
pharmacies to […]
