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, […]
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 […]
Well, that’s it for me. I’m back in my room, enjoying a Shiner Bock (a fabulous Texas micro brew) in my jammies writing this post — I’ll forgive just about anything during a hotel stay if they have broadband Internet. I’m leaving tomorrow on a character-building 6am flight. All in all it […]
