POSTS TAGGED AS hospitals

Mobile Health Planning, Soup to Nuts

mHealth
Becker’s Hospital Review is a champ when it comes to taking a complex subject and organizing it in an easy-to-grasp [MORE]

Active RFID Without a Battery

iFind Battery-Free RFID
Until now, RFID systems have come in two forms: unpowered passive tags that have to pass a near [MORE]

The Unhyped Patient Experience

Quality Care Issues
Hospitals can be miraculous places, which their advertising usually promotes for a market share advantage. Rarely does [MORE]

Sanitizing Hospital Door Handles

Door Handle Sanitizer
Hospital acquired infections happen at a rate of one in twenty five in-patients.  Since insurers no longer [MORE]

The Hospital that Tracks Everything

Intelligent Hospital Control Desk
This piece reviews a bevy of efficiency technologies for hospitals—altogether representing incremental rather than disruptive innovation.  As [MORE]

Expanding RFID

Iotera-RFID
Two pieces here discuss development in radio frequency identification tags—passive or battery-less tags developed at Cambridge University that are [MORE]

Salt Imbalance: An Innovator’s Opportunity

Hyponatremia in Neurosurgical Patient
According to European researchers, about one third of hospitalized patients present hyponatremia (low serum sodium concentration causing [MORE]

The Outpatient Hospital of the Future

Inpatient Care
Hospitals make money by admitting patients, performing surgical and surgery-related services, and discharging the person as quickly as possible. [MORE]

Costliest Surgeries

Surgical Suite
This listing of just 20 surgical procedures accounts for 58% of costs for all hospital surgeries and 27% of [MORE]

Hospitals’ Price to Cost Ratio

The Institute for Health & Socio-Economic Policy has listed the 100 hospitals in the US with the highest price [MORE]

Best Practices for eICU’s

Tele ICU
Electronic intensive care units—which use telemonitoring to round on critical ill patients—made slow progress in hospitals before the [MORE]

Implementing RFID

RFID Technology
Radio frequency identification tags—both passive and active—have long been known to cut down on rental equipment, improve cold [MORE]

Kaiser’s Model Hospital at Garfield Innovation Center

Kaiser Permanente Innovation Center
In a former 37,000 sq. ft. warehouse, Kaiser Permanente created its Garfield Innovation Center (San Leandro, [MORE]

Healthcare: The Most Dangerous Occupation

Even nurses might guess that construction sites or factory floors are more dangerous places to work than hospitals or [MORE]