Wireless-Doc (the Weblog) Bill Koslosky, M.D. examines the state of wireless technology and medical applications.

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Wednesday, December 10, 2003   CLINICAL WIRELESS Incentives lower costs of e-prescribing The state medical society and two insurers are encouraging doctors in Massachusetts to adopt electronic prescribing. The American Medical News posts this item on their Web site: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts and Tufts Health Plan -- announced they will jointly spend $3 million to roll out e-prescribing technology to the 3,400 highest prescribers in their networks. The prescribers, representing about 16% of the approximately 21,000 practicing physicians in Massachusetts, will receive free BlackBerry and PocketPC handheld devices from the health plans. Contracts have been announced using the services of Zix Corp. and DrFirst Inc. 11:26:23 AM     CLINICAL WIRELESS McGill prof offers hospitals tips to avoid wireless snafus This article reports on a presentation made by associate professor Bernard Segal of McGill University during Canada’s second annual summit on wireless healthcare technology. He discussed several anecdotes where electronic magnetic interference had been affecting medical devices but was not resolved until months later. "There was a case in Montreal where there was a medical device that was malfunctioning in a hospital for months and no one recognized it," he said. "The physicians and medical staff didn’t have it in their mindset that a medical device could malfunction due to EMI. Once you tell people about it you’ll have the right framework to start in on wireless health care." Segal's answer is for each hospital to initiate a program to establish wireless zone procedures. The interference is related to amount of RF power of the wireless device. He cited a study where 55 to 75 per cent of medical devices exposed to walkie-talkies malfunctioned. Often overlooked are the security guards who carry walkie-talkie and may be causing interference when they are the near an intensive care unit. 9:08:43 AM     © Copyright 2004 Bill Koslosky, MD. Last update: 1/3/2004; 3:45:56 PM. This theme is based on the SoundWaves (blue) Manila theme. December 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31       Nov   Jan