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Integrated health system implements RTLS
Date: Aug 10, 2010
In a move to better track medical equipment in needs of repairs—and to optimize its use of mobile assets—Grand Rapids, Mich.-based Spectrum Health has begun automatically tracking and managing over 5,300 hospital assets throughout its downtown and crosstown campuses.
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Proof of cost effectiveness needed to spur U.K. telehealth uptake
Date: Aug 09, 2010
Telehealth may have succeeded in capturing the imagination of the healthcare industry here in the U.S.--spawning a host of partnership efforts, joint ventures and other initiatives in recent months--but across the pond, lingering questions about the technology's cost effectiveness have given rise to an identifiable chasm between the early adoption and wider uptake of technologies.
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LCD TVs, patient education and telemedicine
Date: Aug 06, 2010
A partnership effort joining electronics giant Samsung and Raleigh, N.C.-based TeleHealth Services, a provider of healthcare grade televisions and on-demand interactive patient education offerings, aims to deliver to market two new UL-approved LCD TVs designed just for hospitals.
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Software appliance to help trim MDM costs?
Date: Aug 05, 2010
AirWatch has expanded the delivery options for its enterprise-wide Mobile Device and WLAN Management (MDM) software with its recent introduction of the AirWatch software appliance. By offering mobile device management preloaded on a dedicated software appliance, the Atlanta-based MDM provider aims to supply customers in healthcare and other industries with three choices: software deployed behind the corporate firewall, Software as a Service (SaaS), or a software appliance.
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New Blackberry, new OS
Date: Aug 04, 2010
Set to become available through AT&T next Thursday (8/12), Research In Motion unveiled the 9800 Torch yesterday in Manhattan. The slick, slider smartphone boasts a touch screen and a QWERTY keyboard, will retail for $199, and promises to be the first device to run the Blackberry 6 OS.
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GE, Intel look to telehealth, independent living
Date: Aug 03, 2010
It’s been almost a year and a half since GE and Intel forged an alliance based on their shared vision for the role technology will play in healthcare going forward. Now, the two tech titans are launching a new venture that will create a healthcare company focused on telehealth and independent living.
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Mobile charge capture for the iPad?
Date: Aug 02, 2010
San Francisco-based pMDsoft is touting its new, native iPad charge capture application as a first-of-its-kind offering for the healthcare industry.
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Tablet computers take off
Date: Jul 30, 2010
Apple did a good job with the iPad's launch, resurrecting consideration of tablet computers by more than a few in healthcare who had been burned by lesser tablets in the past. But as we recently saw with the unveiling of Cisco's enterprise-friendly Cius--and the runaway success of the Android operating system in general--competition among tablet makers is heating up fast.
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Mobile app access key to N.H. hospital's WLAN upgrade
Date: Jul 29, 2010
The second busiest acute care hospital in New Hampshire is beefing up its wireless network for mobility applications in an effort to keep up with rapid organizational growth and an influx of new mobile technologies.
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FDA greenlights mobile RPM solutions
Date: Jul 28, 2010
Healthcare organizations can expect to be hearing from San Antonio, Texas-based AirStrip Technologies, now that the developer of virtual real-time remote patient monitoring technology has received FDA clearance to market its mobile medical software applications, including AirStrip RPM, AirStrip RPM Critical Care and AirStrip RPM Cardiology.
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Recent Posts
St. Jude Medical focuses on wireless patient monitoring
St. Jude Medical has upped its interest in wireless patient monitoring technology, acquiring a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS for $60 million while locking in the rights to buy the Atlanta-based developer of an implantable device that tracks blood pressure in the heart. Read More
Date: Sep 08, 2010
Telehealth improving hospice patient care in Connecticut
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County (formerly Nursing & Home Care and Mid-Fairfield Hospice) has begun offering Home Telehealth in response to the healthcare needs of many in the community. The system is designed to let seniors communicate with health professionals without having to leave their homes. Read More
Date: Sep 07, 2010
RFID system finds support
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
St. Jude Medical has upped its interest in wireless patient monitoring technology, acquiring a 19 percent stake in CardioMEMS for $60 million while locking in the rights to buy the Atlanta-based developer of an implantable device that tracks blood pressure in the heart. Read More
Date: Sep 08, 2010
Telehealth improving hospice patient care in Connecticut
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County (formerly Nursing & Home Care and Mid-Fairfield Hospice) has begun offering Home Telehealth in response to the healthcare needs of many in the community. The system is designed to let seniors communicate with health professionals without having to leave their homes. Read More
Date: Sep 07, 2010
RFID system finds support
Pittsburgh-based ClearCount Medical Solutions has capped its latest round of funding at $5 million, which should go a long way towards driving market penetration and R&D for the SmartSponge and SmartWand systems. These solutions for hospital patient safety applications use radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology and chips embedded in sponges to enable surgeons and nurses to detect and count sponges during operations. Read More
Date: Sep 02, 2010
Sutter Health banks on mobile app
The second largest healthcare system in Northern California has tapped the iTriage mobile app in a move to keep local patients supplied with data about doctors and nearby hospitals. Sutter Health, which spans 24 hospitals and a network of 4,700 physicians, hopes its patients will turn to the free download to view information such as a doctor's board certification or practice specialty, hours and office addresses, languages spoken, medical training and degrees, affiliations and referral networks, whether he or she accepts new patients, and what health plans are accepted. Read More
Date: Sep 01, 2010
