Quality health care blogs have been springing up all over the place lately. Reading this post by a fellow Chris Locke fan (we're both old subscribers to his email called Entropy Gradient Reversal), it was clearly time to take account of developments in the blogosphere.
First off, the 2005 Medical Blog Awards at MedGadget were […]
Predictably, the American College of Radiology (ACR) has issued a press release in response to yesterday's release U.S. Pharmacopeia (UPS) about medication errors in radiology. After calling the study “incomplete, inaccurate,” the ACR said the study could, “cause needless alarm for patients.” Rather than argue the facts, the ACR raises the issue context:
More specifically, context […]
In health care, RFID is not a product. No, really, it's not. Instead, think of it as enabling technology.
In wholesale distribution, retail or manufacturing you have enterprise-wide vertical applications where one might buy an RFID system to track merchandise or parts. In hospitals there are multiple RFID applications with specialized requirements. Because of these […]
The remote monitoring space is heating up, what with companies like ADT, Intel, and Philips moving in, and VCs funding startups. Living Independently will use the funds for sales and marketing, product development, and expansion into the UK.
Living Independently Group, Inc., a leading behavioral monitoring company dedicated to helping seniors and other at-risk individuals live […]
With the recent approval by Health Canada for reimbursement of ECG loop event recorder studies, Israeli firm Aerotel is entering the Canadian market. Aerotel has signed Ameda Medical Technologies distribute their products. Aerotel makes a variety of telemedicine products including ECG, weight, blood pressure. Remote connectivity is done via phone, Bluetooth and broadband Internet connections.
RFID vendor PanGo Networks has picked up a new distribution partner, ePlus. ePlus is a well established value added reseller, and already sells and services Cisco products. Here's the rationale:
ePlus
Technology's focus on integrated healthcare solutions and its expertise
with Cisco Systems' wireless local area network (WLAN) technology
provide an ideal approach to support PanGo's Wi-Fi-based asset tracking
solution. […]
Baptist Health last month began using the remote ICU observation - a first in South Florida - to monitor patients at South Miami Hospital. The center will begin monitoring ICU patients at Baptist Hospital next week and will expand to Mariners, Doctors and Homestead hospitals by the end of the year. The remote ICU observation […]
Allscripts and A4 have signed a deal, valued at $272 million in stock and cash. A4 has over 1,600 customers.
The strategic acquisition of A4 will double Allscripts clinical
software revenues and the size of its sales force, while significantly
expanding Allscripts existing product portfolio and providing the
company with an integrated EHR/PMS for small to mid-sized groups. […]
Philips gets serious with the $750 million acquisition of personal emergency response company Lifeline. Philips can read demographic trends as well as anyone, and looks to establish a major foothold in the remote monitoring market outside of their base in hospitals.
The aging of the population provides strong underlying market
growth for home healthcare solutions such […]
