Healthcare providers are looking to medical devices to play a new role in hospital care, providing a whole-patient view of health through technologies that talk to each other and help clinicians make decisions about treatment.
Data Management
Patient Safety: Bill Clinton urges healthcare stakeholders not to leave patients “sicker and broke”
Former President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of healthcare industry stakeholders last night, asking them to help leave the system better than they found it through coordinated efforts to leverage technology and expertise in the interest of patient health.
Patient safety: Q&A with Masimo founder Joe Kiani
Patient safety: Zoll CEO makes the pledge to share data
Medical device maker Zoll Medical is among the 1st medical device companies to sign on to the patient safety and medical device data pledge proposed by Masimo (NSDQ:MASI) founder & CEO Joe Kiani this weekend.
The pledge includes promises to open up patient data gathered by medical devices to clinicians, patients and anyone else who can help improve patient care.
Patient safety: Kiani “blown away” by pledges to open up healthcare data
Patients deserve their data | Guest Editorial by Joe Kiani, Masimo CEO
By Joe Kiani
It’s astonishing there is even a debate whether patients should have access to their own health information from medical devices being used to physically monitor their wellbeing.
Keeping patients in the dark is not a prescription for patient safety and better patient outcomes. Indeed, access to information critical to the health of an individual is at the heart of improving patient safety.
FDA works with partners to establish important therapeutic area data standards
By: Janet Woodcock, M.D.
Security: Health regulators demonstrate new EHR exchange standards
Regulators at the Depts. of Health & Human Services and Veterans Affairs this week demonstrated new standards for transmitting sensitive health information in a manner that protects private data.
The demonstration builds on a recent notice of proposed rule-making released by HHS’s Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, which is soliciting public comment on rules for secure data communication for health information exchange networks.
What’s going around: Can biosurveillance data improve patient care in real-time?
By Tom Ulrich
Anyone’s risk of catching an infectious disease is closely linked to what epidemiologists call the disease’s incidence: the number of people in a given area infected with that disease in a given time period.
Health IT Services: Huneo focuses on real-time data management
Huneo, LLC. is all about the data.
The young Cleveland, Ohio-based startup is looking to use its IT expertise to help capture and send data in real time to several different types of doctors for a number of different health applications — sleep studies, heart studies and athletic performance monitoring, for example.
Huneo fills a gap in traditional databases, CEO & co-founder Phil Ryder said. Most can’t handle the fire hose of information associated with real-time capture, in which data is recorded as often as 100 times per second, according to Ryder.