Health Care Messaging Market Defined
What do secure communications, care team coordination, patient engagement various workflow...
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Category: Patient Flow
Scheduling Workflow
Scheduling is not a workflow one normally associates with medical device connectivity. In some applications, scheduling is handled by software separate from the connectivity solution. Sometimes, scheduling is not done at all. In...
Read MoreReview: EHR, A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain
A while back I was provided with a review copy of the book, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medication Domain, by Alexander Scarlat, MD. This book is intended to serve as a practical book about electronic...
Read MoreVariable Acuity Nursing Benefits Proven Again
I’ve not seen many stories on what is referred to as “universal beds,” “variable acuity units,” or as in this story, “universal patient floor.” The idea behind all these terms is a radically different approach to care delivery. Conventional care delivery is divided into specialized areas through which patients are moved, based on their type […]
Read MoreGlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day Three
Patients have noted the more quite environment, and are complimenting nurses at a higher rate than in the existing hospital units.
Read MoreGlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day One
GlobeStar used this user group meeting to launch Version 4.0 of ConnexAll.
Read MoreNational Patient Flow Survey - 2008
Increasingly hospitals are organizing cross functional teams to look at these multi faceted problems.
Read MoreNew Qualcomm Chip Swings Both Ways
Qualcomm released a new 3G chip that supports both EV-DO (Verizon and Sprint) and HSDPA (AT&T and T-Mobile). This will result in radio cards that will run on either technology and provide the greatest choice in selecting...
Read MoreED Overcrowding Worsening, Cost One Hospital More Than $1,000 per Hour
A recent survey of ED docs indicates that they believe that ED overcrowding is getting worse. From the Modern Healthcare story: In a survey of nearly 1,500 practicing emergency physicians, more than 80% said crowded conditions...
Read MorePatient Flow Recommendations and Predictions
Research firm Arketi sent me a survey on hospital patient flow. Sponsored by patient flow software vendor StatCom, the survey sought to quantify the patient flow problem (how many ED boarders, hours on divert, room turn over...
Read MoreMore WLAN Problems
Bruce Hubbert who writes the Freakquency blog has another good post titled, "The Myth of the Self-Monitoring WLAN." Duke University recently suffered a WLAN outage caused by an unanticipated flood of ARP (address resolution...
Read MoreCDC 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...
Read MoreMore Hospitals Lift Cell Phone Bans
According to a survey by CHIME, more hospitals are reducing restrictions on cell phones.Twenty-three percent of the 185 survey respondents reported their organization has lifted all restrictions on mobile phone use, up 5.5% from...
Read MoreVocera Names Zollars New Chair and CEO
Vocera has named Robert J. Zollars as their new Chairman and CEO. Like many health care executives, Zollars got his start at American Home Products, before moving to Baxter. From the press release:Most recently, he served as...
Read MoreAAMI 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,...
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