Here's another clip from AAMI, this one from the exhibition floor. The Draeger TeleSmart was shown at last year's AAMI. Since then, they've received their 510(k) and released the product; manufacturing is gearing up now, and the product should be shipping later this summer or fall. Jeff gave a quick product presentation/demo that would make […]
Lantronix has scored their biggest medical device deal to date, “a custom, battery-operated version of its commercially-available WiBox® 802.11 b/g wireless device server for the manufacturer’s medical point-of-care application.” (press release)
Terms of the agreement include a non-recurring payment and minimum
quantity purchase commitment valued at approximately $360,000 over the
initial 12 months of production and an additional […]
Respironics was showing Respi-Link, remote monitoring capabilities through an RS232 serial port. The biomed must take the device down to their shop and connect it to a computer that runs a special Respironics client. Through this connection, users can download firmware updates and do run some diagnostics. Respironics is using Axeda for this feature, and […]
I saw the new Hospira pump - you know, the one with the funny name (okay, I'm writing this on the plane and can't remember the Symbiq). It has a very nice color touch screen that covers almost the entire front of the device. The device has an 802.11b radio presently, but will have an […]
GE Carescape is the main focus of a front page story
in Healthcare IT News (dead tree edition that came today). GE
Healthcare brings out the big guns to describe the Carescape solution.
Let's start with the problem as they define it:
Walk – or be wheeled – into any hospital’s emergency or operating room and you’ll likely […]
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 […]
Reader Geoff T. sent this link to a story in Healthcare Design magazine on a new heart hospital at Ohio State University Medical Center. While I have mixed feelings about specialised hospitals, I was encouraged by the broad adoption of variable acuity units. For this crew, building a new hospital just like the old hospital […]
Doing a good job of getting patients discharged is key to good patient flow. There are many reasons why patients may not get discharged as soon as they could. Attending physicians at many hospitals don’t seem to get around to writing discharge orders until late afternoon or early evening of the day of discharge. Patients […]
