Articles

2/18/2010
PSQH: Connectivity to Improve Patient Safety »
Making Medical Device “Plug-and-Play” Interoperability a Reality
12/30/2009
HealthLeaders: Round Peg, Square Hole »
Tim Gee's take on the current state of medical device connectivity and why it is essential to implement a vendor neutral solution
11/23/2009
HIMSS Clinical Informatics Insights: Meet an Informaticist: Victoria Bradley »
Better use of clinical decision support will provide the right information to the right clinician at the right time
11/19/2009
Nurses.com: NJHA Launches Major Nursing Initiative »
Project aims to retain nurses, improve patient safety and outcomes through partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)
11/1/2009
Health Data Management: Getting Devices to Talk to EHRs »
Sherman Hospital chooses Capsule for their medical device connectivity solution
10/16/2009
HIMSS Clinical Informatics Insights: Transformation from Wired to Wireless, Continuous to Spot »
Connectivity expert Tim Gee describes the current state of medical device connectivity
10/13/2009
H&HN:10 years, 5 Voices, 1 Challenge »
To Err Is Human jump-started a movement to improve patient safety. How far have we come? Where do we go from here?
9/8/2009
CIN: Automated Clinical Documentation: Does It Allow Nurses More Time for Patient Care? »
7/10/2009
PSQH: Biomedical Device Integration: The Impact on Clinicians at the Point of Care »
Brian McAlpine explores how biomedical device integration provides a way to simplify workflow and actually enhance the value of the EMR and its adoption by the clinical staff
4/28/2009
Healthcare IT News: Capsule targets bedside device management with Neuron »
Capsule is introducing the Neuron, a touch-enabled bedside monitor that communicates wirelessly with and displays the connectivity status of bedside point-of-care devices
4/24/2009
MSP Industry Alert: MDDS — Key to Clinical Integration at the Point-of-Care »
Article discusses how selecting an independent party for device integration allows the hospital to integrate clinical information for numerous medical devices and brings that information to the point-of-care for real-time decision making.
2/26/2009
A Competitive Edge: Whether for profit or not, CIOs are under pressure to make sure every IT dollar yields concrete benefits »
Healthcare Informatics, March 2009 - CIOs need to focus on IT that can be used to improve patient care and patient safety, reduce medical errors, enhance the patient experience, and improve clinician workflow and efficiency. Out of those improvements, comes ROI.
2/13/2009
A 36-Hospital Time and Motion Study: How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Spend Their Time? »
Article published in The Permanente Journal, Summer 2008/Vol. 12, No. 3, describes why increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of nursing care is essential to hospital function and delivery of safe patient care. Article further shows how nurses spend their time, with evidence that over 35% of that time is spent on documentation.
2/5/2009
Tech Trends 2009 - Medical Device Integration Ranked as #3 out of Top 10 Tech Trends by Healthcare Informatics »
Healthcare Informatics list of the Top Tech Trends for 2009 reflects the conflicting influences tugging at healthcare CIOs today.
2/2/2009
Healthcare Informatics: Medical Device Integration »
Capsule's DataCaptor software automation has proven to be highly popular with the nursing staff at St. John's Medical Center in Jackson Hole Wyoming.
1/14/2009
Regions Hospital - Connectivity Helps Put Patient Care First »
Article published in Advance for Health Information Executives describes how Regions Hospital used Capsule to integrate their devices so that data would go directly into the EHR.
1/12/2009
Obama's big idea: Digital health records »
President-elect wants to computerize the nation's helath care records in five years.
12/29/2008
Medical devices lag in iPod age »
As technology moves forward, people expect the electronic devices of everyday life to work together, from cellphones that can call or text-message other phones, to computers that interconnect with a slew of gadgets. But in the medical world, where the stakes are higher, such flexible interconnection is rare. Each device operates in its own silo.
11/18/2008
DOTmed News: Leading Healthcare Providers Implement DataCaptor by Capsule »
DataCaptor has been implemented in over ten leading healthcare provider's facilties in the past two months.
10/13/2008
ADVANCE: Considering Medical Device Connectivity? What You Need to Know »
Article published in Advanced for Health Information Executives, web version, October, 2008
10/10/2008
Health-IT World: Legacy Health System, Portland, OR integrate their biomedical devices to their Cerner Millennium system with DataCaptor »
Article from Tim Gee, Medical Device Connectivity Consulting on how Capsule's extensive library of medical device interfaces was able to aid the brand new Portland hospital in opening on schedule.
8/26/2008
HH&N: Information Technology and Nursing »
Before a hospital adopts an IT system, it must consider the impact on the nursing staff