Via Toolmonger:
Toolmonger “reader Litcritter just became a proud papa, but that doesn’t mean he’s not a tool guy. While his bundle of joy was being born he took the time to swing the camera around and grab a shot of the crash cart in the corner of the room.”

Apparently some hospitals decided to save some [...]

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Biomeds working at Genesys Regional Medical Center in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan walked into work last Friday Morning to find that they longer had jobs.
Gensys has outsourced their in-house Biomed Department to Trimedx, a national provider of Clinical Engineering Services. The decision to go third party was made in ”an effort to insure long-term productivity and enhanced [...]

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Beaumont Hospital has opened The Beaumont Commercialization Center - a device and technology development center.
The Center will help incubate, develop, prototype, test, etc. the ideas of manufacturers and inventors.
“The Beaumont Commercialization Center will work to turn the latest patented technologies from inventors at Beaumont, other medical institutions and businesses into market-ready medical devices for original equipment [...]

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Future Healthcare has a wonderful article detailing on the correct way to clean Medical Equipment.
The article explains the reasons behind the “Spray-Wait-Wipe” method, and why its use is critical in the healthcare environment.
I don’t know who cleans equipment in your facility, but in the facilities I have been in, its usually someone from the Housekeeping Department. [...]

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Aspect Medical   (ASPM: 5.31 +0.03 +0.57%, vol: 85,103, 52wk: 4.87 - 16.08) issued a press release in response to the New England Journal of Medicine study.
The study, which shows that the BIS Monitor is no more effective against anesthesia awareness then older technology relying on End Title Anesthetic Gas (ETAG). ETAG measures the amount of anesthetic exhaled [...]

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The February issue 24×7 Magazine has a wonderful article explaining Medical Wireless Networks. The article profiles Partners HealthCare System in Boston, MA.
 The article elaborates on the types of networks and their associated frequencies that Partners utilizes. As well as WTMS, Cell Phone Usage (anywhere in the hospital), etc.
Winning In The Wireless World from 24×7 Mag

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FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst, N.C. has five new equipment locator’s. The hospital employees four Tug Robots and one Homer Robot made by Aethon, Inc.
The robots which move on wheels navigate the corridors by dead reckoning and lasers, relaying on blueprints in their memory. The robots equipment with wireless technology are able to call [...]

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Palomar Pomerado Health which will be located in Escondido, CA when complete in 2011., has launched a virtual facility on the web in Second Life - a 3D online virtual world.  
The health center will be a state of the art 600 bed facility covering 1.2 million square feet, costing $773 million when complete. The opening of the virtual [...]

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