AAMI 2008, San Jose, Day Two
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
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AAMI 2008, San Jose, Day One
There is special focus on workflow analysis.
Technical Session 2: High Confidence Medical Devices, Software, and Systems
Chris Gill from Washington University in St Louis, introduced the second technical session.
The papers in this session will touch on distributed control and sensing in networked medical device systems. These are real time embedded networked system infrastructures for MDSS, and the development, assurance and medical practice-driven models for high confidence medical device software.
These systems are […]
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 […]
Rapid Response Systems: Minding the Gap
There is a big gap world wide in hospitals between the care delivered in critical care areas and the care delivered in general patient care areas. Critical care units have all the latest toys like $38,000 patient monitors, 1:1 or 1:2 nurse to patient ratios, they deliver the most sophisticated drug therapies and can perform […]
MET Conference - 1st Day
Today was a sunny spring day in Pittsburgh. The conference is being held in the David L. Lawrence convention center - where 4 months ago a 20×60 foot slab of concrete fell 30 feet to the street below; something about a dangling cherry-picker. After a bit of retrofitting, things are better than new (hopefully).
Michael DeVita […]
Medical Emergency Team 3rd Annual Conference
I’ll be attending the international conference focused on pre-attack intervention of at-risk patients in an effort to reduce adverse events and eventual failure to rescue. Here’s how the conference describes it:
Rapid Response Systems (RRS) / Medical Emergency Teams (METs) are a preplanned
group of health care practitioners who respond to acute patient deteriorations in hospitalized patients. […]
HIMSS 06 Wrap Up
Yesterday I was asked for some quick impressions of this year’s HIMSS. Now that I’ve had a bit of time to digest the event, here’s what I came up with. First, this show was much more of a business development/business alliance oriented show. Many vendors were openly partnering and had products in each other’s booths, […]
Days Three and Four at HIMSS
Did you run out of time too? I needed two more days for all the info I was hoping to get at HIMSS this year. This year a few of the publicity firms scheduled me for meetings with key people at a number of companies. To my interviewees, thanks so much for your time - […]
Thoughts on Blogging and HIMSS
An old friend, Jim called today to bitch (in the nicest of ways) about the HIMSS show blogging done by yours truly and others. I also got a request from Dale H.
…could you blogger-attendees blog something about how HIMSS itself went, for those of us who couldn’t make it? I wasn’t able to get away […]
