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 […]
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 […]
Business Week has an interesting story about recent advances in glucose meters and insulin delivery systems for diabetics. Many of the devices in the story aim to improve usability in various ways to improve patient compliance and outcomes. Proper control of blood glucose levels has a tremendous impact on a diabetic's health, quality of life […]
On of the changes roiling health care is the disintermediation of primary care physicians. The advent and continued growth of retail clinics and concierge medicine are examples of a new business model chipping away at physician's traditional business. This New York Times story describes a company called Inn-House Doctor.
A new kind of medical practice is […]
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., […]
Bruce Hubbert who writes the Freakquency blog has another good post titled, “The Myth of the Self-Monitoring WLAN.” Duke University recently suffered a WLAN outage caused by an unanticipated flood of ARP (address resolution protocol) traffic. The details of the failure are used to demonstrate the need for network and WLAN monitoring that goes […]
