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New MCA to help Australian nursing home go paperless
Date: Aug 20, 2010
In a move CEO Susan Bowditch describes as her organization's first serious venture into technology solutions, Jacaranda Village is implementing the new Motion C5v Mobile Clinical Assistant (MCA). The residential aged care home, which aims to go paperless within the next two years, is among the first Australian healthcare organizations to adopt this mobile device.
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UPMC gets 'smart'
Date: Aug 19, 2010
Can "smart rooms" help healthcare providers prioritize activities at the point of care while delivering bedside access to digitized patient information to authorized hospital staff? Hospital officials at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) are convinced “smart rooms” can do just that - and they’ve tapped IBM’s SmartRoom technology to make it happen.
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California Telehealth Network gets under way
Date: Aug 18, 2010
Following a mid-April announcement that AT&T would be building its medical-grade telecommunications system, the University of California and a mix of healthcare organizations, tech companies and federal agencies gathered at UC Davis Medical Center yesterday to launch the California Telehealth Network (CTN).
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Insurer unveils iPhone app for health plan members
Date: Aug 17, 2010
What do you get when an online information and technology company that markets to employers, benefits brokers and healthcare organizations joins forces with a Pennsylvania-based health insurer? A new, health-related iPhone app, of course. The latest to join the fray is called Health@Hand.
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Vendors aim to refine unified communications
Date: Aug 16, 2010
It's still very early in the unified communications (UC) game, but a recently expanded agreement between Microsoft and Polycom could have a big impact on the way healthcare and other industries manage messaging, video and voice with connected apps and devices.
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e-Health to hinge on information governance
Date: Aug 13, 2010
A new report put out by global management consulting firm Accenture predicts that healthcare organizations gearing up to make large investments in e-health solutions will have to clear hurdles in five interrelated disciplines of information governance: data privacy, confidentiality, security, quality and integrity.
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Hospitals focus on asset tracking
Date: Aug 12, 2010
Having the ability to quickly, cheaply and accurately track mobile inventory and people is something hospitals can no longer live without. Two days ago, for example, we learned that eight-hospital Methodist Healthcare System in San Antonio, Texas, has opted for RadarFind's asset tracking software in its five hospitals that are large enough to warrant tracking. Yesterday, two more healthcare systems announced plans to leverage RFID technology for tracking purposes--one of which expects the decision to save $400,000 a year by bringing tracking efforts in-house rather than paying a contractor to do it.
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'Smarter' Wi-Fi for hospitals?
Date: Aug 11, 2010
Is the push to go paperless driving healthcare's adoption of smarter Wi-Fi technologies? Well, yes--that plus the industry's increasing demand for more reliable wireless networks that deliver solid, wide-area coverage to support the kinds of devices, services and apps that are key to higher quality patient care delivery and increased patient and staff satisfaction.
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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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Recent Posts
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
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
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
Marketing deal to extend AirStrip OB reach
A collaboration between Alere Health and mobile medical software developer AirStrip Technologies should go a long way towards extending the reach of AirStrip OB software. Beginning Sept. 1, the new marketing agreement calls for Alere, through its Women & Children's Health division, to begin offering AirStrip OB to its healthcare provider client base in the U.S. Read More
Date: Aug 31, 2010
The numbers favor 'mPHRs'
With 50 percent of consumers saying they want a personal monitoring device prompting them to make improvements in their health, could a marriage between mobile devices and personal health records completely change the way health care is delivered in the United States? It can and it will, according to a brief issued by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions. Read More
Date: Aug 30, 2010
