Carti Cancer Center in Little Rock, Ark, has installed Toshiba America Medical Systems’ Infinix 4D CT system, making it the first healthcare facility in the United States to do so. The Infinix 4D, which amalgamates Toshiba’s Infinix-i angiography system with its Aquilion One Vision Edition CT system, helps clinicians improve visualization and workflow.
Read MoreAsserting its role as “a neutral organization that highly values its…’honest broker reputation,’ ” AAMI has submitted comments to the FDA concerning medical device repair and refurbishment in advance of the agency’s June 3 deadline. The 18-page letter, followed by nearly 40 more pages of attachments, notes the dangers of silo-based thinking and advocates for consensus-based standards over regulation.
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The National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute has released a compendium of the executive summaries and recommendations from five other reports published by the Institute between 2010 and 2015. Transforming Health Care, as it’s called, was recently announced at the 18th Annual Patient Safety Congress in Scottsdale, Ariz.
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Knowledge earned from scientific discovery is how a discipline advances and matures, Larry Fennigkoh argues—and it is how the clinical engineering and entire HTM community can best defend itself against those who question its tremendous worth and value to healthcare.
Read MoreThe failure of medical devices is a high-stakes issue, but unearthing the root cause when breakdowns occur can be difficult, particularly if multiple factors come into play. A recent list of key reasons for failure point to the need for comprehensive safety checks across the manufacturing, regulatory, and maintenance ecosystems.
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