Pharmacy Intervention software targets POC
Date: Mar 09, 2010
Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Thomson Reuters is beefing up its Clinical Xpert suite of workflow solutions with the launch of its new Pharmacy Intervention solution for hospitals. Although Clinical Xpert has been the category leader for mobile data systems in the Best in KLAS Awards for eight years running, the new software combines real-time clinical surveillance, mobile access to patient data, and Micromedex reference information—all aimed at helping hospital pharmacists identify and document interventions at the point of care, prevent adverse drug events, and reduce medication costs.   Read »

HIMSS10 Reflections
Date: Mar 08, 2010
My subjective take on HIMSS10 is that the general consensus of attendees thought it was a great success (and personally, I want to thank those who allowed me to be involved with the educational outreach in the areas of medical banking and social media).   Read »

mHealth being shaped by need for chronic disease management
Date: Mar 05, 2010
It’s a good time to be researching the mobile health IT space. The grant money floodgates are open and all eyes are fixed on chronic disease management. The collective expectation that remote patient monitoring will set our health system free is at an all-time high, and activity levels among those organizations working to develop breakthrough systems are equally lofty.   Read »

M2M sleep apnea device to help providers meet reporting standards
Date: Mar 04, 2010
A new sleep apnea device—the brainchild of Royal Philips Electronics and Cinterion Wireless Modules—has won the Best Embedded End-to-End Service Award, part of the GSMA's Embedded Mobile Competition. By leveraging Cinterion’s cellular machine-to-machine communication modules, the M2M solution joins mobility and reliable two-way wireless communications with advancements in sleep apnea therapy to help patients and their healthcare providers, who are faced with meeting rigorous new reporting standards.   Read »

Wireless players talk healthcare mobility
Date: Mar 03, 2010
Telecom spending in healthcare is expected to increase 44 percent over next three years, from $8.6 billion to $12.4 billion. With wireless applications likely to represent two-thirds of that jump, it's not surprising that HIMSS10 would draw out the wireless industry honchos to bang the drum in support of mobile HIT. Although much of what they had to say you've heard before, it's always worth getting their take on the future of the mobile point of care.   Read »

Bi-directional mobile software for hospitals
Date: Mar 02, 2010
Is a bi-directional mobile software solution what hospitals have been waiting for? Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Validus Medical Systems—which developed its Validus inTouch software system with a team of physicians, software engineers, cloud computing experts, and network security specialists before rolling it out to hospitals—believes so.   Read »

The International Journal of Medical Banking and HIMSS10
Date: Mar 01, 2010
eHealth and mHealth are data driven and are dependent on both the kinds of information which can be generated and the transport infrastructure which carries them. This week the International Journal of Medical Banking, Vol. 3, will be officially announced at the HIMSS Medical Banking Project's Eighth National Banking Institute, and it will focus upon innovations related to the convergence of Financial Services and Healthcare. John Casillas, senior vice president, HIMSS Medical Banking Project, is the IJMB's Editor-in-Chief.   Read »

Voalte readies for Blackberry rollout
Date: Feb 26, 2010
A little over a year ago, I wrote how Voalté, which competes with Ascom, Cisco and others, wants to be the central communications engine--or traffic cop--on your healthcare organization's iPhone. This year at HIMSS, the Sarasota, Fla.-based developer of point-of-care communication technology plans to make its Voalté One solution available to Blackberry users, too.   Read »

EMR push drives health care management company to go wireless
Date: Feb 25, 2010
The federal government's requirements for hospitals and health care facilities to transition to electronic medical records has prompted health care management company Clear Choice Healthcare to swap out its Cisco equipment at nine skilled nursing and assisted living facilities throughout Florida and one SNF in Denver. To support the leap to EMRs and deliver broadband access to patients and staff, Clear Choice has replaced its Cisco gear with a ZoneFlex 802.11n Smart WLAN system from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Ruckus Wireless.   Read »

Exploring the RPM-based health care delivery model
Date: Feb 24, 2010
Following an April 2009 announcement, in which GE Healthcare and Intel pledged to jointly develop innovative technologies for independent living and chronic disease management, the tech companies--along with Mayo Clinic--are investigating a new model of health care delivery for patients at increased risk of re-hospitalization.   Read »