I received the following blog post from Stephen Olsen, Principal at Integra Systems. Steve has spent more than 20 years in the wireless industry in engineering, sales and business development. Steve’s wireless experience extends beyond health care to include public safety, cellular and 802.11.
In the past I’ve extended an invitation to a few select industry […]
I spoke with founder and managing director of Spyglass Consulting,
Gregg Malkary yesterday about two of his most recent studies. The latest is
Point of Care Computing for Nursing (press
release - pdf), and released this October, the same topic targeting physicians (press
release - pdf). Gregg did his first study on mobile computing
in 2003, with follow on studies […]
I’m frequently amused by the constant flow of stories on regional health information organizations, or RHIOs. The emphasis on developing the right “business model” - a euphemism for finding the rubes who will provide the hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars to fund a typically gold-plated RHIO - is perhaps the most frequent topic […]
One of my favorite Clinical Engineers called today, prompted by last week’s post on the Emergin acquisition by Philips. Like many that I’ve talked to, this person was surprised that Emergin was not snapped up sooner. A list of potential bidders were mentioned, but my lips were sealed. I will say this about potential suitors […]
Philips announced this week that they have acquired private health care IT vendor Emergin for an undisclosed sum. From the Philips press release:
Emergin is the leading US provider of software utilized to rapidly
transmit medical alarm signals throughout hospitals. The transaction is
expected to close […]
For those of us interested in new business models and open source software, Modern Healthcare has a nice overview story the evolving relationship between Medsphere and the open source movement.
On June 26, 2006, Medsphere filed a $50 million, 12-count lawsuit
in Orange County (Calif.) Superior Court against the Shreeves and 20
other unnamed defendants, alleging […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
