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 […]
Technical Session 1: Interoperability Challenges; Introduction by Glenn Himes, Mitre Corporation.
Himes presented a model for medical device connectivity, emphasizing the challenges with interoperability facilitated by medical device controller systems. He then pulled back to show the context that device data and system connectivity plays in the broader health care delivery system.
The biggest challenge faced by […]
Robert Kolodner MD, is the National Coordinator of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. He's the newest and second coordinator charged with the responsibility to facilitate the adoption of health care IT.
Kolodner started his presentation with some sobering patient safety data:
Medical errors are killing more people per year, in the […]
Software is in the midst of substantial change.
The single vendor solution model is braking down, both because the
level of automation in hospitals is starting to exceed the ability of
any “single application” to address it (not to mention the ability of a
vendor to cobble one together through acquisitions), and IT
architectures like SOA and web services are […]
Things are changing in the WiFi market. At HIMSS 2007 I noted the booth traffic Aruba Networks and Meru garnered. There was also new comer Extricom who showed a wireless LAN that has a “one-channel” deployment, like Meru.
Since the show, I've heard rumblings of vendor trials at hospitals where the sales eventually went to […]
I noted the other day that fellow blogger Shahid Shah, The Healthcare IT Guy, had a post on a free scanner for detecting the use of USB drives on your network. The tool he mentions is called Endpoint Scan, and has some very powerful features - be sure to read his post (you can see […]
The other day, PACS guru Mike Gray wrote an interesting post on disaster recovery. Between the HIPAA security requirements and Sarbanes-Oxley, hospitals have little choice but to archive data and store a copy off site. Mike takes the concept of backing up data a step farther:
So here is something to consider. Given that you are […]
Right on the heels of the Menlo platform announcement, Intel has released a new UMPC (ultra mobile PC) spec called Moorestown. From DailyTech:
The big kicker for Menlow is its substantial improvement in battery life over available UMPC offerings. Menlow has approximately twice the life of current devices, reaching up to 6 hours of regular use […]
A year after launching their spec for the Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), Intel is announcing a new spec based on Linux.
Called a Mobile Internet Device (pic), or MID, the devices will
have screen sizes from 4.5 to six inches with a target audience
described as “consumers and prosumers” rather than mobile professionals.
While [the UMPCs] CPU components […]
I sat in on the conference call this afternoon on the new HIMSS Leadership Survey for 2007. The survey this year was based on a larger sample (360 respondents) and had some interesting findings. Of course most all the focus of the conference call was on EMR adoption. After about 1% adoption annually between 2002 […]
