Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
With texting, tweeting, Facebook PMing and Gchat increasingly replacing
face-to-face or telephone conversations, it's only logical that
clinicians will find a way to enhance provider-patient communications.
The trend is official now. In October, the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) allocated use of the 2360-2400 MHz bandwidth for
medical use. Those bands were previously reserved for flight testing in
the aerospace industry. This change should further facilitate real-time
monitoring. More
patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.
