April 30, 2013
Earlier this month, Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota was honored with the Way Paver Award for Institutional Achievement for implementing a barcode point-of-care (BPOC) system for neonatal and pediatric care. The award recognized the culmination of a concerted effort by Children's Minnesota to improve the safety of IV medication administration to pediatric patients.
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November 07, 2012
Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota recently implemented infusion management technology in one of their facilities. Hear Bobbie Carroll, RN, MHA, discuss the impact this technology has made.
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September 20, 2011
Imagine an environment that is aware of your presence. Automated events occur based on your location, preferences and patterns. Daily tasks take less time or are simply no longer necessary, based upon the ability to utilize smart technology – seamlessly integrated into your everyday routine. Now, apply this smart concept to an environment focused upon providing health care and optimizing the patient experience.
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August 09, 2011
The FDA has already cleared a handful of mobile medical apps used by health care professionals, such as a smartphone-based ultrasound and an application for iPhones and iPads that allows doctors to view medical images and X-rays. But to-date, the FDA has not cleared any consumer-facing mobile medical apps. Nor does it appear that the FDA realizes how big a job this will be.
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April 28, 2011
On
April 28, 2011, Cerner was honored along with WellSpan
Health and Hospira with
the Collaboration Award as part of the 2011 Way-Paver Awards at the 6th Annual unSUMMIT
Conference for Bedside Bar Coding. This award is significant; it’s the
first-ever Way-Paver Award to recognize collaborative efforts and results
between a healthcare IT company, a hospital and a device manufacturer.
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March 25, 2011
How do you turn a classic client pain point into an excellent way to push the technology boundaries in the lab space? Change the business model and the dialog. This is what the DeviceWorks arm of Cerner Corporation did a few years ago.Surrounded by a rapidly expanding list of bedside devices that needed interfaces, they were trapped in an endless loop of building “one-off” interfaces at each client site. To break the cycle, this group called the proverbial “time out” and started talking directly with the device makers about building interfaces in advance of clients going to market. What happened next was truly game changing. First, our clients’ immediate pain points surrounding drivers began to subside as Cerner associates and device makers started to work together to build or enhance the interfaces needed in the field.
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October 26, 2010
Over the past two years since relocating to the U.S. from an extended global assignment, I have had the opportunity to get plugged into the largely consumer-driven economy that is enjoyed here in the United States. I’ve had a lot of fun re-defining the “technological me” from the assortment of devices and attachments that best serve and indulge my information needs and desires.
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