Wi-Fi Device Drivers for Medical Devices

Experienced Wi-Fi driver developers are in short supply.

An Assessment of Wireless Medical Telemetry System (WMTS)

So the new WMTS solved all our wireless medical device problems, right?

Do Medical Devices Need 802.11n?

Medical device makers then will move to put 802.11n radios in their devices…

Cisco CCX and Medical Devices

Modifying wireless LAN radio software is a daunting task for most medical device vendors.

CDC Publishes Latest Emergency Department Summar for 2005

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, […]

AAMI 2007 - Day Three

Steve Merritt kicked things off today with a presentation titled, Integrating Medical Devices into the IT Infrastructure: Pitfalls and Recommendations. Steve provided a fantastic overview of their experience at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. Steve started with the regulatory definition of a medical device:
A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in […]

AAMI 2007 - Day One, Afternoon

First up after lunch, “A Prescription for Wireless Anxiety,” presented by Scott Bradley of Draeger and Dave Hoglund with Andrew Corp. Scott related his experience on wireless and risk management at Draeger, especially a market study that Drager underwrote this year. For some time, a major portion of their product strategy has been based on […]

Congress Contemplates Reporting of ED Boarding Statistics

According to this story in the New York Times, “More than half the doctors from New York State, New Jersey and
Connecticut who responded to a survey conducted in April by the
American College of Emergency Physicians said that boarding had
increased significantly in recent years.” Boarding is the practice of treating patients in hallways of busy Emergency […]

Private Equity Will Hasten Health Care's Transformation

Tony Chen at the Hospital Impact blog has a great post on the tsunami of recent deals in health care. These deals are changing the health care industry. Outsiders in the form of private equity investors and insider hospital M&A are gobbling up failing organizations or those weakened by market changes for which they have […]

ED Diversion Continues to Challenge

The California Healthcare Foundation has underwritten a study looking at ambulance diversions across the state. Findings in this phase 1 report showed that state wide emergency departments (EDs) were on divert an average of 10% in 2005. Emergency department closings to ambulances continue to confound hospital administrators. You can read about a recent survey showing […]