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What if my Philips Intellivue patient monitor doesn't have an MIB/RS232 card?

2/9/2022

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This post is specifically for our customers who are connecting to a Philips Intellivue patient monitor and have discovered that their patient monitors do not have the required hardware.  Click READ MORE below.

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MediCollector Now Supports Integration With Draeger Infinity Patient Monitors

2/16/2021

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Do you need data from a Draeger patient monitor?  MediCollector now supports integration with the Draeger Infinity Series of patient monitors, including the Draeger Infinity Delta, Kappa, Gamma, Vista and IACS models.  

Data can be acquired, recorded and streamed to external applications for all your medical data-acquisition and integration needs.

For more details about specific model numbers and required cabling, please see our list of Support Devices.

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How to Receive Email Notifications when Recording Data with MediCollector

1/3/2021

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Many people use the MediCollector BEDSIDE or MediCollector SERVICE products to record or stream data for long periods of time. Sometimes days or even weeks at a time. This often requires that you leave the computer unattended for extended periods of time.  When doing so, it can be helpful to know when something goes wrong with your recording while you are away.  For example, sometimes cables can be unplugged or other unexpected events can happen.  To meet this need, you can use MediCollector's built-in functionality for Email Notifications.

To enable Email Notifications in the BEDSIDE or SERVICE versions of our products, do this:

  1. Stop your recording
  2. Go to EDIT>PREFERENCES
  3. Click on ERROR HANDLING
  4. Click the checkbox to "Send email when error occurs"
  5. Click the Configure Email Notifications button
  6. Fill in the specifications for your SMTP server.  See my example below.
  7. That's all!

​Now you will get an email if something goes wrong while you are away!

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Researchers at Rice use MediCollector to Test Their Novel Temperature Monitor in Malawi, Africa

11/5/2020

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Recently, a group of researchers from Rice University developed a novel neonatal temperature monitoring system for use in low-resource settings.  To test and validate their new system, they brought it to a hospital in Malawi, working in collaboration with the University of Malawi, and used MediCollector BEDSIDE to compare data from their device to a standard Philips patient monitor.  Learn more about this interesting work in their publication in BMJ Pediatrics Open.  

Sosa Saenz, Sonia E et al. “Evaluation of a continuous neonatal temperature monitor for low-resource settings: a device feasibility pilot study.” BMJ paediatrics open vol. 4,1 e000655. 7 May. 2020, doi:10.1136/bmjpo-2020-000655
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MediCollector and Boston Children Hospital Receive Funding from NIH to Develop Next-Generation Hospital Information System

10/27/2020

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PictureNIH SBIR STTR Seed Funding for MediCollector
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) grant to MediCollector and Dr. Benjamin Matthews, Division of Medical Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, in order to develop a ground-breaking new hospital information system.

A typical hospital bedside is cluttered with medical devices which continuously generate huge amounts of data. However, most of that data is never recorded or transmitted. This lack of integration leads to roadblocks for medical researchers and can lead to clinical workflow inefficiencies, often requiring nurses to manually enter data into electronics medical records systems. With the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) in healthcare, there is also a growing need to access this trove of medical data.  

MediCollector will be collaborating with Dr Benjamin Matthews of Boston Children’s Hospital to develop and test a ground-breaking new Medical Device Data System (MDDS) which will capture and record this trove of data and make it easily accessible through a simplified interface. The new system will utilize the latest HL7 FHIR protocol which is rapidly becoming the globally accepted standard for transmitting data in healthcare. This will allow external systems, such as smartphone apps and AI algorithms, to easily access live data from patients in the hospital.

“With this funding from NIBIB, MediCollector will be able to expand upon its previous work in medical device integration. The new system will allow data to be acquired from numerous medical devices simultaneously and make the data easily accessible to external systems.” states John Osborne, founder of MediCollector. “Previously, researchers and AI developers struggled to get access to live data from the hospital bedside. Our new system will utilize the HL7 FHIR standard to make it easy to capture and stream this data.”

For more information, please see the NIH’s public project summary page:

An Interoperable HL7 FHIR-based Medical Device Data System (MDDS) For Accessing And Integrating Live Point-Of-Care Data From High-Acuity Bedside Patient Monitoring Equipment
Research reported in this article was supported by the National Institute Of Biomedical Imaging And Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R43EB030890 . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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Automated and Silent Installations of MediCollector

9/12/2020

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MediCollector software is distributed using a single-file installer.  This means you download one file and double-click on it, and then follow the instructions to install our software.  But this requires a person to click on many buttons to install the software.  For our customers who are embedding MediCollector into their own systems, it may be useful to automate this process, or even install the software "silently" (with no windows popping up). 

​If you are an advanced user and wish to automate or silently install MediCollector software, please click "Read More" below.   

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File Export Utility

2/27/2020

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Some of you have a requested a tool that can convert MediCollector files (.medi) into other formats, such as CSV, TXT and EDF.  All our products have this functionality built-in.  But we understand it would be useful to separate this function into a simple and FREE utility.  Click below to download it.  

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Export from MediCollector .medi file
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MediCollector on the NI Tools Network

2/3/2020

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MediCollector available on National Instruments NI Tools Network
MediCollector is now available on the NI Tools Network, a library of software tools and applications that are certified by National Instruments, the creators of LabVIEW.  

Getting listed on the NI Tools Network is like a stamp of quality from such a trusted company as NI.  Each piece of software on the NI Tools Network is thoroughly tested and certified by NI, and we are proud to be a part of their network.  

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Running MediCollector for Long Periods of Time

1/21/2020

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Hello medicollectors!  In today's post, I provide some useful tips for running MediCollector for long periods of times... like for weeks, months or years.  Some of these tips utilize little known features of MediCollector which are ideal for long-term sessions.  To view these tips, please click the READ MORE link below.

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MediCollector now supports HL7 streaming!

12/20/2019

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MediCollector is a middleware for MDI patient monitor EMR integration HL7 (Health Level 7)
Do you need to get data from a patient monitor into your EMR? This is part of a challenge known as Medical Device Integration (MDI) in hospitals. 

Using HL7, MediCollector can now be your MDI solution by functioning as a "middleware" to transfer data from medical devices into hospital information systems (HIS) such as electronic medical records systems (EMR / EHR).
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Wow, that's a lot of buzzwords!  If you're looking to get data from your patient monitors into your EMR, MediCollector can now do this using HL7.

If you need help with MDI, please see our MDI solutions, or contact us.

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