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Biomedical Device Integration

Raphael L. Aquino, MS Health care has traditionally lagged behind other industry sectors in implementing cross-functional teams, but in recent years there has been a significant shift in organizational structure and the alignment between clinical, IT, and biomed. While there may not yet be a chief biomedical information officer, biomedical should have a seat at […]

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Convergence Is Not Just An Urban Legend

The first thing you should know is that I am not close to being a medical device-IT guru like the prior writers of this column—Cooper, Gee, Sloane, Olbrish, Zambuto, Schrenker—a hit list of the leaders in the field. I am a Boomer-aged clinical engineering director running an organization known in the past as a clinical […]

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So You Have a Hospital Network, Now What?

As clinical engineers (CE) and biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs), we have had our own clinical networks for years. Initially, with literally nothing else to connect to, these networks stood by themselves. Now you can call me a little parochial, but I still firmly believe that live clinical data networks like an intensive care unit monitoring […]

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