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Emergency Preparation

Arthur R. Bartosch, BS, CBET On a crisp autumn day last October, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, was bracing for a full-blown pandemic influenza catastrophe. Physicians and nurses scrambled to ready beds, while biomeds rushed to set up enough portable blood pressure machines and ventilators in a makeshift triage area to await a steady […]

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Medical Device Interoperability

Todd Cooper When President George W. Bush declared in 2004 that most Americans would have an electronic medical record (EMR) by the end of 2014, there was an implicit mandate to have device interoperability before 2015. As we entered 2009, there was a cautious sense of anticipation regarding the assignment of a common device connectivity […]

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Converging the Networks

Tim Gee For more than 20 years, medical device manufacturers have been designing networked systems. These medical device system networks were designed to operate physically separate from the enterprise network. In private networks, manufacturers applied the same design principles to the network implementation of their systems as they did to embedded system devices. Variables were […]

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