The first thing you should know is that I am not close to being a medical device-IT guru like the prior writers of this column—Cooper, Gee, Sloane, Olbrish, Zambuto, Schrenker—a hit list of the leaders in the field. I am a Boomer-aged clinical engineering director running an organization known in the past as a clinical […]
Read MoreIn honor of National Patient Safety Awareness Week, ECRI Institute is offering a free Risk Analysis publication on improving communication and preventing breakdowns that can adversely affect patient safety in the health care setting.
Read MoreECRI Institute’s Center for Healthcare Environmental Management (CHEM) announces its upcoming Healthcare Environmental Manager (HEM) certification course, to be held April 12 to 16 at The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano, in Plano, Tex.
Read MoreOur February Focus On column references an emergency exercise at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY. In the exercise, doctors, biomeds, and other hospital staff ran through all
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Arthur R. Bartosch, BS, CBET On a crisp autumn day last October, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, was bracing for a full-blown pandemic influenza catastrophe. Physicians and nurses scrambled to ready beds, while biomeds rushed to set up enough portable blood pressure machines and ventilators in a makeshift triage area to await a steady […]
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