Closing the Gaps
Harmonizing biomed and IT operations to develop safety-critical best practices for medical device systems
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What is Critical Equipment, and How Should it be Maintained?
Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE In December of 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a clarification of hospital equipment maintenance requirements1 contained in the State Operations Manual Provider Certification. This clarification stated that critical equipment must be maintained at the frequency recommended by the manufacturer, whereas the frequency of noncritical […]
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What to do with Those Pesky Technical Manuals
Barry Voss As biomeds, we all know the necessity of operator and service manuals. The Joint Commission, CMS, ACR, CAP, and all the other alphabet inspectors are also very interested in making sure they are in order. This article considers the possibility of turning those paper manuals into the electronic version, and the cost/benefit of […]
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The Medical Equipment Committee
Arif Subhan, MS, CCE This article is a continuation of the previous article on Committee Management, which appeared in the May 2012 issue of 24×7 and discussed successful committee management. This article will review the hospital Medical Equipment Committee. The clinical engineering professional may be a member or chair or co-chair of the Medical Equipment […]
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Detroit Medical Center Clinical Engineering Department
A finely tuned clinical engineering department, the Detroit Medical Center (DMC), Detroit, services nine hospitals and institutes in southeast Michigan.
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