Awarepoint was chosen for asset tracking at University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF). The vendor selection team looked at 6 different systems and selected Awarepoint. The story in Healthcare IT News highlights the technology’s use for improving productivity in the surgery department.
Here’s what jumped out at me:
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Well, new to me anyway. The company is CenTrak, located in Newtown, PA, South Korea and Chennai, India. The company, a consumer electronics company years earlier, launched an active RFID real time location system (RTLS) called TagAlert in 2005. Following the release of TagAlert, the company developed InTouch, an indoor positioning system targeting hospitals, long-term […]
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 […]
Many have criticized HealthVault regarding privacy and security concerns, or perceived limitations of HV as a personal health record (PHR). I suspect that HV is challenged more by the market's perception of Microsoft's long running security issues than with any actual shortcomings of that type in HV. And since HV is not a PHR, but […]
The ventilator market is an interesting one - there are many more vendors than in most other product categories, and greater product differentiation between vendors. This is also a product category where hospitals have, for the most part, been unsuccessful in standardizing on a single vendor.
I came across an interesting ventilator vendor the other day, […]
The Kaiser Family Foundation reports that the latest HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study shows that Medicare patients in the “highest-ranked U.S.
hospitals are 71% less likely to die than those who receive care in the
lowest-ranked facilities.”
According to the study, overall mortality rates at the hospitals
decreased by 11.8% from 2004 to 2006. Mortality rates […]
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, […]
These days phone companies like AT&T are more like network services providers than old time POTS (plain old telephone service) monopolies. Most, if not all of their land-line voice traffic runs over IP networks and the wireless unit is moving to full IP networking for wireless voice when they move to LTE in a few […]
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 […]
FierceHealthIT notes a new CDC study on ED overcrowding - it's getting worse.
Emergency department visits hit a new high in 2005, with more than
115 million visits, says new research from the CDC. That's a jump of
five million visits over the previous year, and a substantial 20
percent increase over 10 years.
Over the same time period, […]
