Blog Entries
11/11/2009
Life as a Healthcare CIO: The Magic of MIddleware »
Dr. Halamka outlines the 9 data exchanges that will be required in 2011
11/9/2009
Life as a Healthcare CIO: Certification Verses Meaningful Use »
Dr. Halamka discusses the difference between certification and meaningful use
11/6/2009
Clinical Transformation: Patient Association »
Kourtney Govro discusses ways to increase caregiver satisfaction by utilizing technology to automate workflow
10/26/2009
HIStalk: EMRs and Interoperability: HIT’s Oxymoron? »
Dr. Lynn Vogel highlights the requirements and different needs of intra-organizational and inter-organizational interoperability
10/1/2009
Medical Connectivity: Market Trends Series: Patient Safety »
Brian McAlpine Authors a second blog post in the Market Trends Series on the topic of patient safety
9/18/2009
Medical Connectivity: Market Trends Series: Wireless Connectivity »
Brian McAlpine authors a 10 part series of blog based on medical device connectivity trends
9/17/2009
Medical Connectivity: Medical Device Connectivity Conference Wrap-up »
The first ever Medical Device Connectivity Conference and Exposition was held September 10 and 11, 2009
5/26/2009
Technology allows us to do what we do best »
How device connectivity changed the scope of one nurse's day to day job and how she came to embrace technology. Do you have a similar experience?
5/5/2009
Medical Connecitivty: Final MDDS Rule Expected Soon »
The draft MDDS rule states that vendors have 60 days after the final rule is published to register with the FDA as a medical device vendor and provide a list of their products.
12/9/2008
Medical Connectivity: Managing Patient Context for Bedside Medical Devices - Today’s Situation »
Brian McAlpine provides insight on the current situation of patient context for bedside medical devices and discusses what it most likely will become in the future.
11/21/2008
Healthcare Technology: The Hospital of the Future »
Deborah Leyva discusses the concept of incorporating the knowledge and experience of other industries into the 'hospital of the future'.
11/10/2008
HIStalk: An HIT Moment with...Arnaud Houette »
Arnaud Houette, CEO of Capsule, provides insight into the improvement of patient care and the opportunities it will offer for device connectivity.
11/6/2008
Medical Connectivity: Why Wireless Connectivity is Different »
Brian McAlpine, Director of Strategic Products at Capsule, disproves two of the most common myths about wireless connectivity while discussing the future innovations coming to the industry.
10/3/2008
Medical Connectivity: History of Medical Device Connectivity for CIS »
With all the focus on medical device integration for EMRs and middleware vendors like Emergin, many of the hospital’s looking for solutions today know little about how connectivity has evolved.
8/13/2008
HISTalk: From Device Dude »
Quick blog response discusses why “hospitals and vendors alike are using middleware that provides vendor-agnostic connectivity. Post further states that “my company partnered with Capsule to be able to provide the connectivity solution to MEDITECH customers and in our due diligence could not find any other product that could integrate over 350 difference device types and provide the level of features that they do.”
6/16/2008
Medical Connectivity: IEC 80001 to Impact Providers »
Both the short and long term potential effects of the approaching standard are explored.
6/6/2008
Medical Connectivity: Cisco Changing to Support Health Care »
After pledging their commitment to the health care industry, Cisco has made great strides in a short period of time.
5/28/2008
Medical Connectivity: What’s Wrong with the Proposed FDA MDDS Rule »
The FDA has proposed to reclassify Medical Device Data Systems (MDDS) from a default class III to class I.
5/26/2008
Medical Connectivity: IEC 80001 - An Introduction »
In an effort to raise awareness about the soon to be completed standard IEC 80001, Tim Gee discusses the problem, solution, and significance of this voluntary standard.
5/6/2008
Medical Connectivity: Barcoding and Patient Context »
Barcoding for implementing patient context has become a hot topic amongst industry experts. Though barcodes have many promising features, do the risks outweigh the potential benefits?
3/1/2008
Medical Connectivity: FDA Issues New MDDS Rule »
The reclassification of medical device data systems sparks controversy and confusion within the industry.
7/9/2007
Medical Connectivity: Cisco Stumbles in Health Care »
Cisco gets a wake-up call from the FDA after its network nears utilization by the healthcare industry.
6/22/2007
Charles Vaz: Biomedical/Bedside/ICU Device Integration »
The many benefits of device integration, including the improvement of hospital throughput, patient efficiency throughput, and patient success ratios are discussed.