If everyone who works in the health care industry takes responsibility for alerting clinicians, as well as institutional and government authorities, of recurrent, unsafe acts and intentional violations, the amount of patient injuries and medical equipment-related deaths can be significantly reduced, industry expert Binseng Wang posits. Like the Department of Homeland Security advises in its famous slogan: “If you see something, say something.”
Read MoreOnce again, there is gnashing of teeth over HTM programs closing. And, once again, the same solution is trotted out: The industry needs to raise awareness among high school and college students to create additional supply, maintains Massachusetts General Hospital Systems Engineering Manager Rick Schrenker. But is inadequate supply of skilled staff the full story? What about the nature of demand, Schrenker poses?
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With the cost of hospital medical devices rising rapidly, it’s necessary to know what you have, how it’s being used, and how it’s being maintained. In this article, EQ2 CEO Joe Eichberger delves into the computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) market and discusses how CMMS’ can help hospitals manage their assets for results.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned clinicians and patients late last week about the risk of potentially life-threatening bacterial infections following open-heart surgery due to the possible contamination of a device commonly used during the procedure: LivaNova PLC’s Stöckert 3T heater-cooler devices. AAMI reported on this development.
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Ben Mannisto, president and CEO of Southfield, Mich.-based Phoenix Data Systems; Vishal Malhotra, chief technology officer at Charlotte, NC-based EQ2; and Sandra Calderon, an Atlanta-based management consultant at FBC, an authorized Tesseract solution provider, sat down with 24×7 to discuss what every HTM professional should know about the computerized maintenance management system market segment.
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