Patient Flow
GlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day Three
Patients have noted the more quite environment, and are complimenting nurses at a higher rate than in the existing hospital units.
GlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day One
GlobeStar used this user group meeting to launch Version 4.0 of ConnexAll.
National Patient Flow Survey - 2008
Increasingly hospitals are organizing cross functional teams to look at these multi faceted problems.
New Qualcomm Chip Swings Both Ways
Qualcomm released a new 3G chip that supports both EV-DO (Verizon and Sprint) and HSDPA (AT&T and T-Mobile). This will result in radio cards that will run on either technology and provide the greatest choice in selecting carriers.
The chips are apparently targeting laptops and should appear in new laptops by the second quarter of […]
ED Overcrowding Worsening, Cost One Hospital More Than $1,000 per Hour
A recent survey of ED docs indicates that they believe that ED overcrowding is getting worse. From the Modern Healthcare story:
In a survey of nearly 1,500 practicing emergency physicians, more than 80% said crowded conditions in their emergency departments had increased either slightly (40.2%) or significantly (42.4%) in the past year, according to a recent […]
More WLAN Problems
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 […]
More Hospitals Lift Cell Phone Bans
According to a survey by CHIME, more hospitals are reducing restrictions on cell phones.
Twenty-three
percent of the 185 survey respondents reported their organization has
lifted all restrictions on mobile phone use, up 5.5% from a similar
survey conducted by the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization in 2004.
Only 11 respondents, or 6%, indicated that cell phone use is entirely
prohibited at […]
Vocera Names Zollars New Chair and CEO
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 […]
AAMI 2007 - Final Thoughts
I was in hog heaven at this year’s AAMI meeting. Connectivity was a major theme, and during every time slot in the program there was at least one presentation dealing with connectivity. During my presentation Monday afternoon, there was one I really wanted to see that dealt with alarm notification.
Lots of discussion centered around the […]
