Medical Device Start Ups and Connectivity
Much like solving the original problem with an innovative product design, finding an answer to the connectivity problem starts with asking the right questions.
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Medical Device Interoperability Lags Behind Technological Capacity
Yours truly was quoted in an article in FDC Reports’ newsletter The Gray Sheet (subscription only) last week about connectivity. The story was inspired by a comment from Bill Crounse, the director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft, during the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. He said, “”I […]
EMR Connectivity for Medical Devices Is a Mess
Yours truly was quoted in a HealthLeaders technology story about, you guessed it, medical device connectivity.
Information technology consultant Tim Gee has a nontechnical description of the current state of connecting medical devices to clinical information systems: “It’s a mess.” Not that direct data capture from medical devices is impossible; some hospitals have been exporting data […]
Medical Device Connectivity and EMRs - Why Bother?
I found a blog reader’s email in my inbox this morning. It seems not everyone at his hospital is keen on investing in medical device connectivity. He wrote about a near term need for connectivity to a planned EMR. Sadly, medical device connectivity is sort of the Rodney Dangerfield of EMR deployments, frequently an afterthought […]
Panel Discussion: Clinical Need for Interoperability
The following is a continuation from the the Improving Patient Safety through Medical Device Interoperability and High Confidence Software joint workshop last week in Boston. I’ve got a bunch more notes that I’ll be tweaking and posting this week. This next bit is from a panel discussion that described the need for high confidence systems […]
Patient Safety, Medical Devices, and Interoperability
Now that I’m done with my HIMSS wrap up piece for MX magazine, I’m going to be posting on items that didn’t make it into the story. (FYI - here’s last year’s HIMSS report.) For obvious reasons magazines don’t want to publish content that’s already been published here. This first post reports on a presentation […]
Network Management Improves for Medical Devices
In health care delivery, the network is a medical device. Okay, not always, but when devices like patient monitors or infusion pumps are connected to a network that carries data critical to patient surveillance or alarm notification, the network is part of the regulated medical device. Now the FDA has been kind enough to mostly […]
Device/EMR Integration - Basic Components, Market Segmentation
As a follow on the post EMR Adoption and Medical Device Connectivity, let’s look at connectivity basics and market requirements. We’ll cover some of the basics here, and explore actual connectivity solutions and the state of the art in subsequent posts.
Medical device connectivity has 3 basic components. At minimum, devices themselves must be able to […]
Medical Connectivity: Plug and Pray?
24×7 Magazine published a story of mine on connectivity. Variously described as “automating workflow” and “deciphering medical device connectivity,” the story approaches the topic from a provider’s viewpoint. After a bit of history and description of immediate and longer term reasons to connect (EMR integration and point of care workflow automation), we dive right into […]
Philips HL7-Ready VM Line of Low Acuity Patient Monitors
A question came up on the Biomed Listserv the other day about Philips’ new VM line of low acuity patient monitors (press release). The initial comment noted that the new VM line looked pretty impressive (it does), is HL7 ready, and questioned whether Philips OEMs the monitors or makes them themselves (they are Philips designed […]
