JCR’s Flu Vaccination Challenge
As flu season approaches, the Joint Commission Resources challenges hospitals to increase the number of vaccinated health care workers.
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IEC 80001: Proactively Managing Risks
Heterogeneity and interoperability? Sounds good: leveraging the IT infrastructure shared by multivendor/multimodality systems and applications, problem-free coexistence and seamless interoperability, freedom to choose best-of-breed solutions, online firmware/software updates, and configuration management … and everything connected wirelessly! When these increasingly complex systems of systems are deployed, though, emergent behaviors and unintended consequences often result, and if […]
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Interpreting Codes and Standards
The interpretation of codes and standards is one of the areas of the certification in clinical engineering (CCE) examination under the topic of “Technology Management.” This section contains 25% of the CCE examination. For a complete list of CCE examination topics, see the 2008 Candidate Handbook for Certification in Clinical Engineering, at www.accefoundation.org/certification.asp. A clinical […]
Read MoreJoint Commission Sets 2009 Patient Safety Goals
The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, has set its 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and related requirements for each of its accreditation programs and its disease-specific care-certification program.
Read MoreAnn Scott Blouin Named Joint Commission Exec VP
The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill, has appointed Ann Scott Blouin, PhD, RN, as executive VP for the division of accreditation and certification operations as of August 11.
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