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ED Overcrowding Worsening, Cost One Hospital More Than $1,000 per Hour
A recent survey of ED docs indicates that they believe that ED overcrowding is getting worse. From the Modern Healthcare story: In a survey of nearly 1,500 practicing emergency physicians, more than...
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New Qualcomm Chip Swings Both Ways
Qualcomm released a new 3G chip that supports both EV-DO (Verizon and Sprint) and HSDPA (AT&T and T-Mobile). This will result in radio cards that will run on either technology and provide the...
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National Patient Flow Survey – 2008
A little over a year ago I wrote about a patient flow survey underwritten by StatCom. This past fall, StatCom published their survey for 2008 (registration required). Some interesting changes were...
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GlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day One
I’m at GlobeStar System’s annual user group meeting this week, in Lisbon, Portugal. Attendance is about 150, equivalent to last year’s meeting. The messaging middleware market is transitioning from...
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GlobeStar Systems World Connex — Day Three
After a breakfast meeting, I caught Brenda Vollmer’s presentation on Improving Safety Through Automation. Grand River Hospital recently installed ConnexALL to integrate WatchMate patient wandering,...
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Variable Acuity Nursing Benefits Proven Again
I’ve not seen many stories on what is referred to as “universal beds,” “variable acuity units,” or as in this story, “universal patient floor.” The idea behind all these terms is a radically different...
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Review: EHR, A Systems Analysis of the Medications Domain
A while back I was provided with a review copy of the book, Electronic Health Record: A Systems Analysis of the Medication Domain, by Alexander Scarlat, MD. This book is intended to serve as a...
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Scheduling Workflow
Scheduling is not a workflow one normally associates with medical device connectivity. In some applications, scheduling is handled by software separate from the connectivity solution. Sometimes,...
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Secure Messaging Middleware Market Defined
What do secure communications, care team coordination, patient engagement various workflow automation solutions and alarm notification have in common? They’re all examples of messaging middleware...
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Patient Flow Recommendations and Predictions
Research firm Arketi sent me a survey on hospital patient flow. Sponsored by patient flow software vendor StatCom, the survey sought to quantify the patient flow problem (how many ED boarders, hours...
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