Connecting EMRs and Smart Pumps Proving Difficult
As they settle into their implementation, hospitals are hoping to connect key medical devices to their EMRs. But vanishingly few have pulled off connecting one important device, the smart infusion...
View ArticleCan We Learn Collecting System Data from How We Collect Medical Device Data?
We’ve been aggregating and sharing medical device data for a really long time in healthcare. Entire corporations are built around collecting and sharing medical device data with another healthcare IT...
View ArticlePerminova and LifeWatch Announce Device Integration for Cardiac Procedures
LA JOLLA, CA – Perminova, developer of web-based information systems for cardiology centers, has launched a strategic alliance with LifeWatch, the leading wireless cardiac monitoring service provider...
View ArticleMore Than Half of US Hospitals Plan Medical Device Integration Investments
The CapSite study, which surveyed more than 300 hospital leaders, found that 54 percent of U.S. hospitals plan to purchase new medical device integration solutions over the next 24 months.
View ArticleHow Open mHealth Designed a Popular Standard (Part 1 of 3)
If standards have not been universally adopted in the health care field, and are often implemented incorrectly when adopted, the reason may simply be that good standards are hard to design. A recent...
View ArticleHow Open mHealth Designed a Popular Standard (Part 2 of 3)
The previous section of this article introduced the intensive research and consultation strategy used by Open mHealth to develop a common schema for exploiting health data by app developers,...
View ArticleHow Open mHealth Designed a Popular Standard (Part 3 of 3)
The first section of this article introduced the common schemas for mobile health designed by Open mHealth, and the second section covered the first two design principles driving their schemas. We’ll...
View ArticlePhilips to Acquire Capsule Technologies, Inc. for $635 Million
Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Capsule Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of medical device...
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