Here in Boston this May, we had an incident where a Green Line subway train operator was involved in a serious collision resulting in many serious injuries. He admitted to authorities that he had been texting at the time of the accident and missed seeing a signal light. In a similar, more deadly accident last […]
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Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE By now, many 24×7 readers are aware that The Joint Commission (TJC) has drastically reorganized its accreditation standards for 2009. The good news is that only a few substantive changes have been made in the standards, so extensive revisions of existing Medical Equipment Management (MEM) plans are not (yet) […]
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The Joint Commission has several different accreditation programs in addition to the one for hospital accreditation that we are most familiar with. It offers accreditation programs for ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospitals, home care, hospitals, laboratory services, long-term care and office-based surgery. Many hospitals seek only hospital accreditation; however, others may seek […]
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Is your department barely holding on, or is it pushing aggressively forward? Clinical/biomedical engineering departments face tough challenges these days. Budget freezes and cuts have put new equipment purchases on hold, translating to more pressure on technicians to keep older equipment up and running and clinicians happy. Training—already an unfulfilled need, according to our December […]
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Industry leaders talk about what the profession needs now to come out on top
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