The Technology Managers’ Forum at this year’s Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) conference in Baltimore focused on some of the ongoing initiatives of the CE-IT Community collaboration between AAMI, the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). This session clearly highlighted the importance of […]
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By involving biomeds in its MedSun program, the FDA improves device and patient safety
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Ongoing education and training should occur when job responsibilities change and to remain current with the changes in the profession, technology, and equipment. The Joint Commission Human Resources (HR) standards deal with the qualifications, orientation, training, education, competence, and performance evaluation of the hospital staff (including contracted employees) who provide care, treatment, and services. For […]
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When 24×7 editor Julie Kirst asked me to come up with a column covering “de-identified case discussions on specific issues and some failures to make it real,” I saw it as a challenge I’d brought upon myself by closing an article I’d written about the applicability of Duke civil engineering professor Henry Petroski’s, PhD, writings […]
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CCUs have much of the same equipment as general ICUs, in addition to a few more cardiac-centered devices. When BMET Steve Erdosy, technical site leader, clinical engineering, Indiana Hospital Community Health Network, Indianapolis, has to troubleshoot something in the hospital’s cardiac intensive care unit, also known as the CCU or CICU, he keeps in mind […]
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