Eko Systems Establishes Frontiers in Hospital Operating Rooms and Recovery Units Of the more than 5,000 hospitals in the United States today, less than 1 percent are creating electronic medical records. The remaining 99 percent of U.S. hospitals still hand write medical records to document the care that a patient receives in such high acuity areas as the emergency room or the operating room. Lost or incomplete records means lost revenue for these hospitals. The use of handwritten records means that the clinical data within them is impossible to aggregate on a large-scale basis. Eko Systems, Inc is about to change all this through Jini technology, and its Frontiers system, which was formally announced and demonstrated at the Heathcare Information and Management Systems Society in April 2000.
Hospitals invest heavily in devices that monitor patients at the point of care.
In effect, the Jem connected to a patient monitor turns it into a Jini technology-enabled device. We have taken the strong requirements of the acute care environment and folded them directly into our product. The technologies we are using are making our product more reliable. Jini technology allows us to distribute the application, compartmentalize any possible failure, and hot swap components while running. In addition to developing ideas for the automotive industry, the center has developed a series of fully functional weather station demonstrators.