I am in the third day of attending this event with over 80,000 attendees. It makes HIMSS pale by comparison. One of my most interesting visits was visiting the Hospital Sirio-Libanes in San Paulo. Had a great opportunity to have a personal site visit by the Director of Intensive Care. Totally state of the art in all respects. More on this later. Bottom line, great show, huge attendance, innovations all the place from technologies that simply you would not see in the United States.
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HOSPITALAR 2010 San Paulo Brazil
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 by David HoglundDistributed Antenna Systems (DAS) and Why the Growth?
Thursday, April 29th, 2010 by David HoglundThis is an excellent article by Crown Castle. The I-Phone, data usage, the costs to add more towers, just means the BTS and or BDA will be inside the buildings. This is the only way you can add more capacity. Also, most people have a hard time understanding that now 70% of cellular calls as well as data, are made “inside” a building.
Wireless Transforming Healthcare
Monday, April 12th, 2010 by David HoglundI usually do not have much time to read magazines, but when I do I read my subscription to the Economist. Tends to give me more unbiased world information. Here is a great article on how Wireless is transforming healthcare from this past week. Just points out how the need for pervasive WLAN coverage and both Distributed Antenna Systems in healthcare will not become a nice to have, but an absolute necessity. While the text may be hard to read, just click on the JPEG to enlarge.
Smart Infusion Pumps Buyers Remorse from KLAS Report
Friday, March 19th, 2010 by David HoglundI have briefly read the excerpt that KLAS wrote, (March 16, 2010) but these are my initial comments. First of all, I do not think the healthcare community should actually pay for a report, but then again this is their business model. Does the analyst have a technical or clinical background or depth of experience, you just have to ask this; and what is their frame of reference?
The overall accepting of what is “termed” a smart pump seems to be based on many variables. I think truly the use of world “smart pump” has been overused. First what is the overall functionality and user interface, wireless capability, and a back end HL7 interface to an agnostic EMR, is it automated to help the clinician, or does this add extra workload? Just like patient monitoring in some respects infusion therapy is being a little comoditized. The LVP has not changed much in many decades from the basic functionality, but there are some cute user interfaces; at the end of the day, an LVP is an LVP. Wireless capabilities are pretty much universal, i.e. 802.11a/b/g. In reality all wireless plays in this sense is to download drug libraries and upload log files. This is transaction based and not quote life critical in nature and some infusion pumps simply hold this data in cache even in out of range of a wireless network. Wireless simply replaces the legacy serial interface to upload drug libraries and download log files. The author has been there and done that.
The key here is to make the clinician experience easier and better. Not throw technology out into the mainstream. Clinicians went to school to take care of patients, not technology. There should be some ability to create automation around the point of care to help them. This does not or should not have to force the clinician having to use a bar code scanner always at each point of care interface (however this does have a place), but maybe automate real time the connection between the patient, the clinician, and the actual medical device. (Think RFID), or some software connection in the background making the automation connection. Then the clinician simply has to confirm this convergence on like say a Capsule Neuron www.capsuletech.com and it actually or could backfill any EMR. This means EPIC, Cerner, Siemens Soarian, you name it. The key here is automation around the point of care that will reduce work load for the clinician, improve supply chain automation, improve efficiency, and decrease risk. That will save a lot of money in patient care and improve the patient experience, let alone making the better day for the clinician. In closing clinicians which are huge value assets to our healthcare systems went to school to take care of patients, not technology.
