Integra Systems, Inc., in concert with the stated partners is in the planning stages of this conference. We feel that this will provide a lot of needed information and is very timely. In addition, our web presence has been updated. www.integrasystems.org
Download Digital Health EHR Risk Security Compliance Privacy Summit Agenda 0521-2
Advancing the optimization of healthcare through the applied use of of communication technologies.
Government officials, senior in-hours counsel, healthcare executives and attorneys will share their experiences and impart sophisticated solutions for:
- Working with regulators to identify and meet compliance needs of your product.
- Understanding the evolving range of spectrum utilization and how to position your company to take advantage of new developments and interference.
- Ascertaining the opportunities and physicians liability implications of BYOD.
- Evaluating the value of your mHealth proposition and growing your product to create a sustained revenue stream.
- Interpreting and predicting FDA treatment of mobile health applications.
- Satisfying HIPPA requirements without sacrificing innovative uses of patient information.
Integra Systems, Inc. will be presenting a co panel discussion on Tuesday April 30, 2013 at 1:30PM at the Washington Plaza Hotel - Washington D.C.
"Safeguarding Your Data While Minimizing the Risk of Security Breaches."
Other co panel participants include: Dennis M. Seymour, CISSP, ITIL Chief Security Architect Ellumen, Inc., Arlington, VA, and Lee Kim, Attorney Chair of mHIMSS Legal/Policy Taskforce, Tucker Arensberg, P.C. (Pittsburgh, PA).
http://www.AmericanConference.com/mHealth
Download WirelessConnConferencevSanJoseCA2012Well the first day was beyound what I thought. Over 120 plus attendees and great presentations. I was like old homecoming week, Jim Welch from Sotera, Bill Salzstein, and Steve Baker, PhD...amoung others. This is a copy of my presentation as a PDF.
This was a very busy but good conference. Had a good presentation today with Tom Boston of www.gtri.com on best practices for medical device connectivity. Thanks Tom, you did a great presentation,i.e. our joint presentation. In the afternoon I conducted the second (first in 2009) MDC workshop on DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems). Not hundreds of people attending, but a small group of luminary medical device companies that were very much appreciative of the education and subject matter expertise. All in all it seemed that in this third year that the conference was again well attended. I applaud both Tim and Satish for a job well done in orchestrating this event. My feeling is that is a "min" HIMSS of which if were HIMSS, these topics would have never been discussed. Also, it is an opportunity for serious hard line debate and networking on serious topics...of which in my opinion probably could not have or would not have happened at HIMSS. Finally, it allows an opportunity to have a one to one discussion to figure out the reality from the fog in medical device connectivity. Hence why everyone simply needed to hang out for the entire two days.
In this day of proven standard networking schemas, i.e. 802.11x for both enterprise and medical devices; it was interesting to see that an another WMTS like derivative, or 700MHz frequency was proposed. Not quite realy clear why this is proposed, as it just adds huge costs, when it is realized that we need to simply to reduce costs for healthcare! As John Chambers, CEO John Chambers said in 2005, proprietary networks are dead, as well as my opinon that proprietary "spectrum", is dead. The challenges are that carriers simply have limited spectrum, probably would not want to share the risk, and what would be the increased or additive costs to the medical device? WMTS has proven itself to be a costly endevor over the years, hence why the continual march to incorporate medical devices over the WLAN with proven QoS and security. Cisco Systems, Inc. and Aruba Networks are the two market leaders in the WLAN space and they have demonstrated significant and proven expertise and the ability to incorporate WLAN enabled medical devices into their WLAN ecosystem. Seven proven years of integration. These two companies alone control around 90% of the WLAN space across ALL vertical markets. So with this market dominance (from a WLAN perspective) you would think they would know and have the right deployment model "baked"? Philips Medical Systems introduced in August 2011, the Mx40 of which is extremely similiar or somewhat identical to the Draeger M300 in functionality. Some of the publich domain annoucements seems like a M300 advertisgin. My hats off to Draeger for setting the bar here. However, the real difference is that Drager has OneNet, uses 802.11x enterprise, while the Mx40 of Philips continues to use the existing WMTS (higher frequency of WMTS) infrastructure. It is my opinion that Philips will use WMTS to work out kinks of this new patient worn monitor with their existing customer base. May take a year or so. However, like the rest of the medical device community, they will probably abandon WMTS and move this over to the enteprise LAN and WLAN. Since they are the market leader they have the luxury of doing this. Bottom line is that Draeger and Philips seem to be the movers and shakers in the space. Not quite clear where the strategy of General Electric and Spacelabs are? However, watch out for some up and coming players in patient monitoring that have taken a whole new approach to algorithms, physiological parameters, and networking innovations. They will be appearing on the scene in 2012 and simply will challenge convention in what we consider the traditional "patient monitoring space". More later on this. This is exciting time to be in this space as innovation in terms of wireless technology is happening on a daily basis.
Download MDC3_BrochureIntegra Systems will be presenting at the Third Annual Medical Device Connectivity Conference September 8-9 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. http://tcbi.org/index.php?conference=mdc2011. We will presenting on day 2, "Key Considerations and Best Practices for Integrating Medical Devices on a Shared Enterprise Network. At the end of the day we will be conducting a workshop on Distributed Antenna Systems.
Thanks to a lot of hard work by Tim Gee, the first ever medical connectivity conference has finally come together. This should be an exciting two days September 9 and 10 at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. These two days are jam packed with a concentrated agenda of presentations and discussions that have been refined to hone in on really important topics in the medical connectivity space. The conference is timely in light of all the changes in the wireless, sensor, and the "connectivity" space that will impact healthcare in a clinical, technical, and financial sense from 2009 and beyond. In other larger venues such as www.himss.org, the important topics and planned presentations that will be presented simply sometimes get diluted down. A combination of great thought leaders in the medical device and healthcare industry as well as attendees will stimulate some lively discussions, but also hopefully help shape proactive changes in this space. Integra Systems will be presenting on the morning of 10th and conducting the workshop on DAS (Distributed Antenna Systems), the afternoon of the 10th. A lot of innovative sponsors such as www.capsuletech.com will be in attendance unveiling their newest platform addition. However, unlike typical exhibitions this conference is focused on the education surrounding this space. Foremost will be the upcoming guidelines, IEC 80001, pending draft approval of 802.11n on September 11, and public safety notices of approval for in-building coverage. The presentations will be strictly limited to this content with unbiased non-mention of any specific companies technology and/or solution offerings.
