Great news in Healthcare IT News:
LiveData has been awarded a $70,000 Small Business Innovation grant in order to
develop a plug-and-play feature to implement standards for OR workflow
and medical device interoperability. The plug-and-play feature will enable devices to work together, to
create safety interlocks, and help ensure that clinicians make
decisions based upon all available information.
LiveData’s provides data […]
Philips announced this week that they have acquired private health care IT vendor Emergin for an undisclosed sum. From the Philips press release:
Emergin is the leading US provider of software utilized to rapidly
transmit medical alarm signals throughout hospitals. The transaction is
expected to close […]
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 […]
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 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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
