Crafting a Better Medical Equipment Management Plan
Leaders from the CE/HTM community share their advice and tips for writing a more meaningful MEMP.
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The Joint Commission Releases Advisory on Device-Related Pressure Injuries
Pressure injuries related to medical devices—including feeding or oxygen delivery tubes, catheters, orthopedic devices, bedpans, and casts—now account for more than 30% of all hospital-acquired pressure injuries, and are a known significant cause of patient morbidity. Preventing them is the focus of a new advisory from The Joint Commission.
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Adventist’s Gordon Hospital Deploys Advance ICU Care’s Remote Telemetry System
The solution will allow telemetry technicians to monitor heart rhythms and related alerts of at-risk cardiac patients to identify possible complications sooner and initiate interventions faster.
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Forging Better Service Contracts
When writing a service contract, including quality metrics around the service deliverables, whether it’s the quality of the parts or the qualifications of the employees doing the work, helps keep vendors accountable.
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Meet the BMET of the Year J. Scot Mackeil
J. Scot Mackeil, CBET, is AAMI & GE Healthcare’s 2018 ‘BMET of the Year.’ Find out how his dedication to the HTM profession and ‘right to repair’ advocacy impressed the judges.
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