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, […]
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 […]
Google announced the formation of a Health Advisory Council that includes an eclectic group of health care insiders. The result has been speculation on Google's plans ranging from an application for patients to store their medical information online to the acquisition of an EMR vendor.
The acquisition of an EMR vendor will render Google just another […]
With little fanfare, GE Healthcare has launched a suite of blogs as part of a new campaign called PeerVision. Initially targeting the diagnostic imaging market, PeerVision could easily be expanded to include other health care market segments. Included in the site are a few blogs, a discussion forum, and the usual marketing materials.
Most medical […]
The Tyco International spin off of their medical division was completed a couple weeks ago. The new company, Covidien has about $10 billion in sales. With a stable of mature health care technology, Covidien is looking to acquisitions to fuel growth.
It is now investing aggressively in research and development in its
core devices business and would […]
Vocera has named Robert J. Zollars as their new Chairman and CEO. Like many health care executives, Zollars got his start at American Home Products, before moving to Baxter. From the press release:
Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Wound Care Solutions,
the leading operator of outsourced chronic wound care centers serving
275 hospital customers […]
