Yours truly was quoted in an article in FDC Reports’ newsletter The Gray Sheet (subscription only) last week about connectivity. The story was inspired by a comment from Bill Crounse, the director of Worldwide Health at Microsoft, during the World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress held in Washington, D.C., earlier this month. He said, “”I […]
Great news in Healthcare IT News:
LiveData has been awarded a $70,000 Small Business Innovation grant in order to
develop a plug-and-play feature to implement standards for OR workflow
and medical device interoperability. The plug-and-play feature will enable devices to work together, to
create safety interlocks, and help ensure that clinicians make
decisions based upon all available information.
LiveData’s provides data […]
Yours truly was quoted in a HealthLeaders technology story about, you guessed it, medical device connectivity.
Information technology consultant Tim Gee has a nontechnical description of the current state of connecting medical devices to clinical information systems: “It’s a mess.” Not that direct data capture from medical devices is impossible; some hospitals have been exporting data […]
Getting device data into an EMR or departmental information system is a common objective for medical device connectivity. Manual data capture is fraught with delays, errors and lost data — replacing the paper chart with an EMR only makes manual problems worse. Proper device data acquisition can be a critical factor in EMR adoption.
Improved alarm […]
