Having Problems with Your Emergin System?
Years ago, many hospitals bought an Emergin messaging middleware system as a point solution to bring messaging to specific interfaced systems. Many of these were used to get event data out of nursecall and other systems that was communicated to caregivers or some other point of care use case. These point solutions were installed in closets or data centers and not given much more thought.
Inevitably, something changes in the systems connected to Emergin and an interface breaks. Getting help with these problems can turn out to be rather difficult. If your problem was caused by an update to the system interfaced with Emergin,...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Messaging Middleware Nurse Call Emergin Emergin repair Emergin service Emergin upgrade Source Type: blogs
Having Problems with Your Emergin System?
Years ago, many hospitals bought Emergin as a point solution to bring messaging to specific interfaced systems. Many of these were used to get event data out of nursecall and other systems that was communicated to caregivers or other point of care use cases. These point solutions were installed in closets or data centers and not given much more thought (as long as they continued to work).
Inevitably, something changes in the systems connected to Emergin and an interface breaks. Getting help with these problems can turn out to be rather difficult. If your problem was caused by an update to the system interfaced with Emergin...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 16, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Messaging Middleware Nurse Call Emergin Source Type: blogs
Proof of Concept: Medical Device Directory for Integration Services
Conclusion, Possible Improvements and Future Directions
The purpose of this project was to build a proof-of-concept knowledge base and expert system to assist in implementing a medical device integration system to an interface broker or EHR and in a rudimentary way, the ontology and knowledge base built demonstrated the concept. Due to the project constraints, Protégé was used to build a medical device integration knowledge base by constructing an ontology with specific medical device model information needed for medical device integration. For the expert system functionality the reasoner function extension to Protégé ...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bridget Moorman Tags: Connectivity Source Type: blogs
Proof of Concept: Medical Device Directory for Integration Services
Conclusion, Possible Improvements and Future Directions
The purpose of this project was to build a proof-of-concept knowledge base and expert system to assist in implementing a medical device integration system to an interface broker or EHR and in a rudimentary way, the ontology and knowledge base built demonstrated the concept. Due to the project constraints, Protégé was used to build a medical device integration knowledge base by constructing an ontology with specific medical device model information needed for medical device integration. For the expert system functionality the reasoner function extension to Protégé ...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 10, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bridget Moorman Tags: Connectivity Source Type: blogs
Interactive Healthcare Messaging Mind Map
You've seen static images of mind maps on this site before (here and here). Now, you can get access to the interactive mind map for the health care messaging market. I've been collecting data and refining the market map for several years.
This analytical tool enables you to quickly find what companies are making claims for specific features, and was the main source of data used to create the messaging use case spreadsheet described here.
What's included?
Approximately 200 companies that have implemented a messaging use case are included in the map. For more about the types of companies that fall under the term, health care...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging Middleware Secure Messaging Emergin Source Type: blogs
Interactive Healthcare Messaging Mind Map
You've seen static images of mind maps on this site before (here and here). Now, you can get access to the interactive mind map for the health care messaging market. I've been collecting data and refining the market map for several years.
This analytical tool enables you to quickly find what companies are making claims for specific features, and was the main source of data used to create the messaging use case spreadsheet described here.
What's included?
Approximately 200 companies that have implemented a messaging use case are included in the map. For more about the types of companies that fall under the term, health care...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging Middleware Secure Messaging Emergin Source Type: blogs
Interactive Healthcare Messaging Market Map
You've seen pictures of mind maps on this site before (here and here). Now, you can get access to the interactive mind map for the health care messaging market. I've been collecting data and refining the market map for several years.
This analytical tool enables you to quickly find what companies are making claims for specific features, and was the main source of data used to create the messaging use case spreadsheet described here.
What's included?
Approximately 200 companies that have implemented a messaging use case are included in the map. For more about the types of companies that fall under the term, health care mess...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 8, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Company Profiles Messaging Middleware Secure Messaging Emergin Source Type: blogs
Connected Medical Device & IOT Security Summit
Introduction – Why Attend the Summit
Cybersecurity is not about human stupidity, random vulnerabilities, or technical exploits. Those are symptoms. The malignancy we face are multitudes of intelligent, cooperative and ambitious bad actors. There is a gray market, and a black market for zero-day exploits, ranging from $10,000 for Windows antivirus local privilege escalation bugs to $1.5 Million for an IOS remote jailbreak. Commercial software attacks can pivot against devices, and exploited devices can be used to launch attacks on Hospital infrastructure. The black side of cyber security is an evolving and competitive ind...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - October 6, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Michael Robkin Tags: Data Security Events Source Type: blogs
Update: Integration/interfacing of Medical Devices to an Electronic Health Record
Overview of Medical Device Integration Task
I provided an overview of integrating medical device systems and information into an EHR in a paper I wrote in 2008. The figure below provides a graphical representation of the overview.
The system architecture for medical device integration consists of a medical device which is attached to a network, and then a series of aggregators and ‘interface brokers’ for the medical device data to flow to the EHR. Also shown in the figure is a process and system to affiliate the patient information with the specific medical device data (“patient ID binding”). Generally, the pro...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - September 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bridget Moorman Tags: Connectivity Source Type: blogs
Usability Heuristic Test of Mobile Fitness Application
I just finished a master’s in healthcare informatics and through that process learned quite a few things. I am planning a series of blog posts (three or four) that highlight several of the papers I wrote that might be of interest to readers of this blog. The subjects will cover usability of a popular mobile fitness application, an update on what is happening in the medical device integration space, and an attempt at building a medical device integration knowledge base.
My healthcare background as a clinical engineer in the last 26 years has been mainly in operations or industry. Any exposure I had to research was u...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - August 21, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Bridget Moorman Tags: Mobile Health Remote Monitoring Source Type: blogs
The Healthcare Messaging Conference & Exhibition
Venue and dates secured!
Wednesday and Thursday, November 29-30, 2017 in Boston
Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School
This site has a great auditorium and breakout rooms for the three tracks of presentations and post-conference workshops we have planned.
There are over 30 speaker slots planned covering many of the big messaging use cases (see below). I am actively recruiting speakers and topics so please contact me if you would like to nominate a speaker or suggest a topic.
What you will see and experience at the Conference
Case study presentations and actionable information for attendees looking to adopt,...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - July 22, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Events Messaging Middleware Source Type: blogs
An Explanatory Framework for Comparing Health Care Messaging Systems
Comparing features and capabilities between various health care messaging solutions requires an understanding of how messaging systems do what they do and a common vocabulary so you can talk about it with others. And because health care messaging is a growth market with first or second time adopters, there is not yet a widely accepted or understood framework or terminology for describing how various messaging systems work, let alone comparing them.
In the absence of an accepted organizing principle, vendors and providers both tend to come up with their own unique way of talking about things. When every manufacturer’s...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - July 5, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Messaging Middleware Source Type: blogs
Housekeeping: Update on Comments
Due to a sustained brute-force password attack on this site’s administrative panel, I have turned off post comments for the time being. As always, you can email me at any time with your question, comment or inquiry. All of the 800+ comments made on the site up to now are still there, and will remain accessible.
I am currently exploring commenting system alternatives to to replace that which is provided with WordPress. Many of these third party systems reduce the attack surface of websites running WordPress (and have more commenting features).
You may recall, a few years ago, this site was infected for a few days with...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - June 27, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Uncategorized Housekeeping Source Type: blogs
Innovation Hotbed: Interstitial Markets in Healthcare
Much of the tech innovation occurring in health care is happening in interstitial markets. Yet some of the innovators or their prospective customers are not fully aware of interstitial markets or their impact. We’re going to define interstitial markets, look at why they’re a big deal, and discuss how you can apply this newfound knowledge.
Health care is made up of organizational silos. These are organizational units most concerned about their own workflow and operations. At the micro level, silos exist within larger organizations like hospitals as departments or care delivery areas. And at the macro level, the...
Source: Medical Connectivity Consulting - June 12, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: Tim Gee Tags: Mobile Health Strategy & Planning Source Type: blogs
