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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nathan left a very meaty comment tying together the post on Trends in Nursing Units with the one on Secondary vs. Primary Alarm Notification. There was so much there that I couldn’t bear to leave it buried in the comments. Let’s take it point by point.
The biggest trend in central station patient monitoring now is […]
At last year’s HIMSS it seemed that Emergin was everywhere. Every time I turned around there they were, providing the connectivity middleware for both medical device vendors and others. This year will be no exception, with Emergin appearing in 16 different booths.
It has also been announced that Johnson Controls (who is making a big push […]
Reader Charles F. posits the question above in a recent comment on the post Current State of Medical Device Connectivity. I’ve reproduced his comment in its entirety:
Frequently missing from the device connectivity dialog is the all important question “ok, you’re connected, so what?” If the point is simply to dump device data into a database […]
Many barriers exist to the “IT enablement” of medical devices.
