June 30, 2008 - OBS Medical's predictive patient safety technology, Visensia, was the focus of a large study and peer-reviewed paper that was published in the June 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, published by the American Medical Association.

June 27, 2008 - Eighty percent of students said EMR availability is important to their future practice choice, according to an annual survey of the Future Physicians of America conducted by Epocrates.

The random survey included 89 percent of whom are third or fourth year students.

Seventy percent of students are more likely to use an Internet or mobile device to help solve a clinical question, according to the survey.

June 26, 2008 - More than 800 reports submitted from hospitals from June 2004 to December 2007 to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority show a variety of problems occur when a patient is discharged from the hospital without proper instructions for care at home.

June 26, 2008 - As new imaging practices emerge, computed tomography (CT) remains a vital tool in the evaluation of patients in the emergency department (ED) with symptoms of chest pain and those involved with trauma, according to an article in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR).

June 26, 2008 - New evidence-based guidelines address the prevention and management of thrombosis in key patient populations and reinforce recommendations related to the routine use of preventive therapies.

The implementation of an electronic medical record (EMR) to convert from a paper chart record system to a high-tech paperless system can take a large investment of time and money and years to complete. Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics measures the progress of a hospital’s using a seven-stage scale it calls the EMR adoption model.

Stage one includes hospitals that have installed electronic EMR systems in its primary ancillary departments the rest of the hospital relies on – the laboratory, pharmacy and radiology departments.


By Dave Fornell

June 25, 2008 – Panasonic today released its Toughbook U1 hand-held computer designed for clinical mobile computing, which is in between the size of a tablet PC and a PDA device, and works using a full Windows XP or Vista operating system.

The ultra-mobile PC (UMPC) computer weighs just under 2 pounds, has a 5.6-inch glare-resistant LCD touch-screen, and measures 7 by 5.75 by 2 inches. Unlike a PDA, which uses a limited operating system, the U1 can use full operating system so it can easily integrate into a hospital’s existing computer systems.

June 25, 2008 - 3M Health Care this week launched of the 3M Filtro 1900 tie-on duckbill surgical mask that incorporates proprietary filtration media and a rayon outer layer for increased breathability and comfort.

The mask provides off-the-face comfort and unmuffled speech, the company said. The filter combination reduces fogging that results from breathing into a surgical mask, and has a lower delta P, a measurement sought by clinicians performing longer surgical procedures.

For more information: www.3m.com

June 25, 2008 - The electromagnetic interference (EMI) produced by radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking systems can interfere with critical care medical devices, according to a new study by the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.

Biotronik GmbH launched the Lumax 540 series, which includes implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) and a cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D), which is used with Biotronik Home Monitoring to enable continuous automatic daily data transmission of the patient’s cardiovascular status.

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