The Healthcare IT World: 3 Keys For 2015

1. Patient Monitoring

Remote patient monitoring seems a little creepy, and a little far-fetched. To treat symptoms, doctors and nurses have to actually see the symptoms, right? For now, right. But once a patient has been diagnosed, remote monitoring can kick in. Especially if a patient is out of...

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A Letter To The Readers Of Our Catalog And Blog

From the Dickson Insights Editor-in-Chief

In the spring of last year, we changed up our catalog. Gone were the days of product specifications after product specifications. In were articles, customer features, and infographics, written and designed for our customer's applications, industries, and...

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The Keys to 21CFR11

21CFR11 is to Food and Pharmaceutical professionals what Dr. Kelso was to Sacred Heart Hospital in the television series Scrubs. Annoying, but necessary.

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Understanding Warehouse Temperature: Seasonal Changes

Last month, we posed the question: ”Is knowing the temperature of your warehouse like alchemy?” because that’s something that we ask ourselves here at Dickson all too often. This question inevitably lead to more questions about warehouse mapping, and honestly, answers are hard to come by....

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Wearable Medical Technology: An Overview on December 20, 2014

FitBit, Apple Watch, Google Glass. Remember the good old days when insulin pumps were a hot new thing? Well they aren't anymore, but wearable medical devices are in fact the hot new thing, to the tune of an upstart industry that is now hundreds upon hundreds of millions of dollars. Consider this...

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7 Tools That Hospitals Use To Monitor Patients

We build devices that monitor temperature, humidity, and water pressure. This much you probably know. But, we are interested any and all monitoring, sensing, and data collection, specifically to the industries that we serve. Hospitals use our temperature data loggers to keep track of vaccine...

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Arway Confections: A Dickson Customer Profile

Together, we walked out the back door with a bag of chocolate covered coffee beans in our hands and a grin on our faces, not realizing that we had left our notes, some unused products, and some calibration certificates back in the factory.

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7 Healthcare IT Twitter Accounts You Should Follow ASAP

Who are the best people in the Healthcare Industry to follow on twitter? Well if you are looking for quality sources of news and analysis, these 7 people and organizations are your best bet.

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Understanding Warehouse Temperatures: The Bay Door

Is knowing the temperature of your warehouse like alchemy? That's something I ask myself, and the wonderful people in the Dickson office, all too often. Other things that come up: Why is it so hard to map a warehouse? Where are the accepted standards? What kind of coffee are we drinking today? Are...

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Dickson Insights: Got Alarms? Why You Need DicksonOne

The cover story for next month's edition of Dickson Insights highlights the importance of closely monitoring your environment in the expectation of extreme weather, and stresses the urgency of having a monitoring system in your facility that can properly handle storage problems that are caused by...

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