One of my favorite Clinical Engineers called today, prompted by last week’s post on the Emergin acquisition by Philips. Like many that I’ve talked to, this person was surprised that Emergin was not snapped up sooner. A list of potential bidders were mentioned, but my lips were sealed. I will say this about potential suitors […]
Yesterday I was asked for some quick impressions of this year’s HIMSS. Now that I’ve had a bit of time to digest the event, here’s what I came up with. First, this show was much more of a business development/business alliance oriented show. Many vendors were openly partnering and had products in each other’s booths, […]
PanGo continues to execute a strategy of business development and integration with solution providers. (See previous post RFID is not a product.)
First, PanGo has teamed up with the ubiquitous Emergin to enable nurse call systems to send location data to nurses’ mobile devices. Emergin, who already supports other RFID vendor’s software, has integrated with PanGo’s […]
At last year’s HIMSS it seemed that Emergin was everywhere. Every time I turned around there they were, providing the connectivity middleware for both medical device vendors and others. This year will be no exception, with Emergin appearing in 16 different booths.
It has also been announced that Johnson Controls (who is making a big push […]
Canadian Healthcare Technology reports that Kingston General Hospital, Kingston Ontario, has implemented a, “fully integrated wireless communications solution.” Sounds sexy and exciting, doesn’t it? It seems they’ve deployed WiFi house-wide:
KGH is the first teaching hospital in Canada to integrate wireless applications with a point-of-care computer that accommodates intravenous infusion, patient monitoring and clinical best practice […]
On October 11th, Cisco broadcast a live webinar to introduce their Clinical Connection Suite (press release).
Of course Cisco makes the same network boxes for health care as they do for every other vertical market, but they create a vertical market spin with alliances, marketing and distribution. Cisco has done a service to the industry by […]
More interesting news dug up at the show today. Ventilator vendors don’t seem to get the whole connectivity thing yet. I think they’re spoiled by only having to serve up a serial interface to monitoring vendors in the ICU. Even a non invasive vent for use outside the ICU had no more than a serial […]
It is hot and sultry here in New Orleans. Heard some great blues last night. But I really have been working. Here’s what I came across today. Hospira released their MedNet system — I’d tell you more, but the press release didn’t stay out too late last night.
Emergin was once again the vendor who was […]
Robert Scoble, Microsoft’s technical evangelist, wrote recently about a recent hospital visit. In this post, he describes what he saw at Overlake Hospital (he does not mention the hospital, Overlake’s just a guess). He’s got some great observations. One is the need for medical device connectivity, another is the highly mobile nature of patients and […]
Alaris currently has 200 Medley customers (with Guardrails, their smart pump/formulary/anonymous CQI database). At four of them, nurses enter the patient ID through a bubble keypad on the pump so they can pull pump data into their EMR via HL7.
This summer, Alaris will release the ability to establish patient context in the pump via […]
