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 […]
Samsung has a new product called the UbiCell that connects to 10/100 Ethernet and broadcasts WCDMA/HSDPA. It seems that Samsung also has a CDMA version. You connect from your cell phone to your carrier via the UbiCell and an Internet connection. Samsung is negotiated with carriers to offer their service over Samsugn's device. It is […]
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) as rapidly replacing RS-232 connections on medical devices. As more device vendors adopt general purpose operating systems like Windows CE, it becomes very easy to leverage USB for connectivity.
When faced with complex connectivity requirements, it is very tempting to just push those requirements off on the user by providing […]
Reader Kyle slipped me this URL today, proclaiming 802.11a/g support for Philips patient monitors. Telemetry is not included - you'll still have to buy proprietary WMTS access points that only work with their telemetry monitors. The radios are packaged as “adapters” that fit in the patient monitor enclosures and, “operate wirelessly on the Philips IntelliVue […]
Another mobile router hits the market. The D-Link unit provides a WiFi hotspot by using an EV-DO network card from Verizon or Sprint.
The new DIR-450 is
designed to accept an EVDO card from carriers such as Sprint, Verizon
or Alltel. To make it work, you plug the device into a source of
12-volt power (including from an external […]
