I commonly receive requests for information about connectivity and enabling technologies like indoor positioning systems. Here's an example: ...I am currently undertaking research into RFID technologies and WLAN to use within a...
Read MoreGlobeStar used this user group meeting to launch Version 4.0 of ConnexAll.
Read MoreFor each and every patient interaction, patient, clinician, staff, space, assets & supplies must come together at the same time.
Read MoreAwarepoint was chosen for asset tracking at University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF). The vendor selection team looked at 6 different systems and selected Awarepoint. The story in Healthcare IT News...
Read MoreWell, new to me anyway. The company is CenTrak, located in Newtown, PA, South Korea and Chennai, India. The company, a consumer electronics company years earlier, launched an active RFID real time location system (RTLS) called...
Read MoreMany have criticized HealthVault regarding privacy and security concerns, or perceived limitations of HV as a personal health record (PHR). I suspect that HV is challenged more by the market's perception of Microsoft's...
Read MoreThe ventilator market is an interesting one - there are many more vendors than in most other product categories, and greater product differentiation between vendors. This is also a product category where hospitals have, for the...
Read MoreThe Kaiser Family Foundation reports that the latest HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study shows that Medicare patients in the "highest-ranked U.S. hospitals are 71% less likely to die than those who receive care in the...
Read MoreThe HealthVault (HV) beta was launched October 4, 2007. Between the confusion surrounding the launch and work, I've tried to gather some thoughts and get some questions answered. The launch was a classic Microsoft launch:...
Read MoreThese days phone companies like AT&T are more like network services providers than old time POTS (plain old telephone service) monopolies. Most, if not all of their land-line voice traffic runs over IP networks and the...
Read MoreThe father of HU (or at least the man who coined the term), Mike Barrett, spoke on the paradox of patient self-management. His presentation was titled, "Don't Ask: Information Aversion and Patient Self-Management." Behavior...
Read MoreTitled, Most Hospitals Reject RFID, a CHIME press release announces that, "A recent CHIME survey shows that the vast majority of respondents have no current plans to implement RFID technology within their organization." The...
Read MoreAccording 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 MoreTechnical Session 1: Interoperability Challenges; Introduction by Glenn Himes, Mitre Corporation.Himes presented a model for medical device connectivity, emphasizing the challenges with interoperability facilitated by medical...
Read MoreI 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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