New technology has helped miniaturized bar-code drug administration and patient monitoring systems, eliminating the need for bulky machines or cart-based devices. The pocket-sized devices have helped increase patient safety and help speed triage and diagnosis. Alternatives to cart-based drug administration

Nurses are the primary healthcare providers in the U.S. today, taking on more and more responsibilities within the hospital and often working long, irregular shifts. A physically demanding profession, nursing is consistently listed as one of the top 10 occupations for work-related musculoskeletal disorders, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in Americans, claiming hundreds of thousands of lives yearly. The ability to diagnose and treat patients sooner and with more accuracy is key to winning the war against heart disease.

In addition to the key function mobile computing serves to enter real-time, bedside information into patients’ electronic medical records (EMRs), it helps reduce errors, improves patient safety and improves staff efficiency. However, when shopping for the components needed for mobile computing, sifting through the vast sea of information can be overwhelming.

This guide was prepared to help highlight some of the technology in an apples to apples comparison and to identify trends and considerations buyers should think about.

When I attended the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in February in Orlando, it was clear information technology is what is moving healthcare forward and is now integrated into every facet of clinical operations. The adoption of electronic medical records (EMRs) is requiring new levels of networking and connectivity to help integrate patient information, PACS, data from monitoring devices, drugs that are administered, infection control, lab tests and patient billing.

June 12, 2008 - The higher the level of nicotine in the toenails, the higher the risk of coronary heart disease (CAD), no matter the number of cigarettes smoked or level of exposure to second hand smoke, said researchers from University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, who ran the study in collaboration with colleagues from Harvard University.

Study results were published in the online edition of the American Journal of Epidemiology, April 2008, and also appear in the June print edition.

June 12, 2008 - There is a lack of universally applied standards for administering radiopharmaceutical doses to children undergoing nuclear medicine examinations, according to results of a recent survey of 13 pediatric hospitals in North America that was published in the June issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

June 12, 2008 – The registry arm of a clinical study to assess the safety and effectiveness of Cook Medical’s Zilver PTX Drug-Eluting Peripheral Stent (DES) in treating peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has yielded positive interim results, trial investigators reported at the 2008 SVS Vascular Annual Meeting last week.

June 12, 2008 – In its post-congress report, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) 55th annual congress in Anaheim, CA drew 6,445 nurse registrants.

AORN said this is up 2.9 percent from the 6,261 who attended the 2007 Congress in Orlando, FL. This year 611 companies were represented on the exhibit floor.

Congress 2008 Attendees by type:
3,087 Managers
593 Educators
160 Students
379 Other/Unidentified
2,078 Staff Nurse
349 Exhibit Floor Only

June 12, 2008 - St. Mary’s Medical Center (SMMC) is one of the first hospitals on the West Coast to routinely use the SPY Intraoperative imaging system (SPY or SPY System) in cardiothoracic procedures surgeries to confirm placement of bypass grafts.

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