The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s Patient Care Device Domain (IHE-PCD) invites all clinical engineers, BMETs, IT groups, clinicians, and developers to attend its open meeting at ECRI Institute on October 18.
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David Harrington, PhD Inventors, engineers, and techies for years followed the K I S S protocol of “keep it simple, stupid.” That protocol got us to the moon and back, and brought us the personal computer, the Internet, and some fantastic advances in health care. Now we seem to be heading in the opposite direction. […]
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Many established biomedical engineering associations have been hosting successful symposiums for decades, with some featuring dozens of vendors and hundreds of attendees from across the nation. Behind the scenes, board members typically begin scoping out locations and negotiating with vendors years in advance, which can make the process seem daunting to start-up associations with limited […]
Read MoreThis article will review how to attain continuous compliance with two other Joint Commission medical equipment standards: EC.04.01.01 EP 10, the medical equipment program reporting to the environment of care (EC)/safety committee; and EC.04.01.01 EP 15, evaluation of the medical equipment management plan. EC.04.01.01 EP 10 This elements of performance (EP) requires the hospital to […]
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Tobey Clark, CCE It has been 5 years since The Joint Commission Clinical Alarm National Patient Safety Goal was removed as a hospital requirement. Are clinical alarms less of an adverse event issue now than they were in 2005, or are events increasing? Are the problems similar or of a different nature? Have new facility […]
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