Costel Rizescu, PhD In 2005, as a volunteer at MediSend International, I helped develop a new state-of-the-art biomedical repair laboratory to refurbish and redeploy donated medical equipment to developing country hospitals. Later that year, Nick Hallack, president and CEO of MediSend, invited me to join the organization. In 2006, we developed a unique biomedical repair […]
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Jason DiFraia Welch Allyn has been partnering with the clinical/biomedical engineering community for more than half of its 95-year history. Today, the company primarily focuses on products for frontline care, spanning both the primary care and acute care markets. Recently, the company announced plans to significantly enhance its service and educational offerings in the spirit […]
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Kelly VanDeWalker, CBET, and his award. In his wildest dreams, Kelly VanDeWalker, CBET, never believed he could get to this point. A BMET V at Indianapolis-based Community Health Network, VanDeWalker recently received the AAMI/GE Healthcare BMET of the Year Award at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) conference—an honor he attributes wholly […]
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The recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference and further, the CE-IT Community—a collaboration between the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), and HIMSS—made us think that an article from a different perspective on the CE-IT convergence might be interesting. With the CE-IT convergence […]
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The aims of reliability-centered or evidence-based maintenance programs are to maximize resources, quality, and safety. Debate over the terminology of preventive maintenance (PM) clouds the real debate issue of using evidence to create a safe and efficacious maintenance program. Shakespeare asked, via Juliet, “What’s in a name?” suggesting not very much with the following lines: […]
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