Health care in the United States is not doing what many of us in this business have worked long and hard for it to do. Our training prepared us to look at a problem, weigh the various options for solving the problem, put the solution into action, and move on to the next problem. This is […]
Read MoreCelebrating 30 years in business, Respironics, Murrysville, Pa, specializes in noninvasive ventilation technology and sleep equipment. The company’s critical care services division won the M2M Value Chain Award in the health care category in June 2006; and in December, Axeda Corp presented Respironics with the inaugural Remote Service Leadership Award. Selected by peers at the […]
Read MoreThe New Year brings with it the anticipation of change and transformation, and marks a new start where one can put the less-than-perfect instances of the previous year behind and build a new future. Unfortunately, the New Year also tends to bring with it numerous dashed hopes as the year progresses. It seems it is […]
Read MoreAccording to the US Department of Labor, there are only about 29,000 workers who are labeled as “medical equipment repairers,” with growth expected to be approximately 14,000 over the next 10 years. This statistic for the number of workers, given the quantity of medical devices and systems, was much lower than I expected. Part of […]
Read MoreWith all the buzz about a national health IT infrastructure, electronic health record interoperability, and standards, increasing focus has come to the medical device connectivity standard known as IEEE 1073. Efforts to create a medical device connectivity standard go back to Hewlett Packard and the Medical Information Bus, and its evolution into the IEEE 1073 standard. […]
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