An Assessment of Wireless Medical Telemetry System (WMTS)
So the new WMTS solved all our wireless medical device problems, right?
Distributed Antenna Systems - No Replacement for Wireless Strategy
I received the following blog post from Stephen Olsen, Principal at Integra Systems. Steve has spent more than 20 years in the wireless industry in engineering, sales and business development. Steve’s wireless experience extends beyond health care to include public safety, cellular and 802.11.
In the past I’ve extended an invitation to a few select industry […]
AAMI 2007 - Final Thoughts
I was in hog heaven at this year’s AAMI meeting. Connectivity was a major theme, and during every time slot in the program there was at least one presentation dealing with connectivity. During my presentation Monday afternoon, there was one I really wanted to see that dealt with alarm notification.
Lots of discussion centered around the […]
Monitoring Currently Unmonitored Patients
I came across some interesting posts in the Biomed Listserv. A biomed from a 250 bed hospital is looking for feedback on GE and Philips telemetry systems. This 260 bed community hospital is going to buy a 12 channel system, and ramp up to about 150 of the devices over the next few years. All […]
The State of Central Station Patient Monitoring - Market Drivers
Last week Frost & Sullivan announced that they’re kicking off an “exciting new study” on the state of centralized patient monitoring in the U.S. They’re going to go department by department to analyze centralized patient monitoring in hospitals and ambulatory care. Their goal is to “elucidate key drivers and trends that are transforming the concept […]
