Medical Software News 11th Aug – Aug 17th

Ok, sorry this is late but here it is.

 

Medgadget

 

Vito W1 Heart Rate Sensing Mouse

This baby can monitor your heart rate as you use the computer. I’m guessing it’ll probably go up when ever you see that damn paper clip in Word, or copy and paste things to or from Word and stuff goes wrong everywhere.

 

FierceHealthCare

 

MA gov. signs pharma gift reporting law

There’s a lot of good stuff in this legislation for Healthcare IT and Medical Devices in general, but everyone seems be getting stuck up in the “report gifts over $50” part of the legislation. People are already against it -and I mean, really, really against it - long letter here 

 

Electronic Health Record News

 

Fierce HealthCare

 

Surprise, surprise. A Study: Majority of patients want EMRs but don't want to be active in making sure they are healthy. Sorta like a smoker who wants someone else to make them quit.

 

WSJ

 

Study in Ireland on EMRs completed; says that processes are improved and they make clinicians more productive. Physician Office Electronic Medical Record Market Strategies Shares, and Forecasts 2007 to 2013. In Wall Street Journal:

 

Whole report here.

 

A good example of how software can be used in hospitals:

Mediware Announces First Customer for BloodSafe(TM)

Pretty cool stuff. This keeps track of all the blood in the safe and allocates it to where it is needed

most, based on blood types and amount of blood!

 

That's it for last week, this Saturday I'll put up was happened this week.