Three of AAMI’s certification programs have been accredited by the American National Standards Institute. The association’s certifications for biomedical equipment technicians, laboratory equipment specialists, and radiology equipment specialists were recognized by this widely respected standards body.
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From August 17-18, nearly 250 members of the biomedical community convened at the Drury Lane Theatre and Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, for the annual meeting of the Clinical Engineering Association of Illinois (CEAI). “The biggest highlight was our theme,” CEAI President Suraj Soudagar says: ‘2016 Watershed: HTM in Transition,’ Such a subject spoke to the current changes affecting the health care technology management (HTM) field, he explains—particularly the FDA’s call for greater regulations.
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The Joint Commission recently announced MJHS, a nonprofit health system in New York, as the first health care organization in the nation to receive its new Community-Based Palliative Care (CBPC) Certification. The certification demonstrates MJHS’s commitment to providing high-quality, community-based palliative care to patients and families in their home.
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Nearly 3,000 alarms: That’s how many notifications just one patient set off in a little over a day while being continuously monitored during a study conducted at the Virtua Health System. When you factor in that nurses can be responsible for four to six patients during the day and seven to 10 during the night shift, it’s no wonder the condition known as “alarm fatigue” has become a serious problem in hospitals.
Read MoreWhat if every association in the US chose to become a custodian of a very focused set of information that is important to biomeds? Biomedical expert Patrick Lynch answers this question and more in the latest installment of his popular column, “The LynchPin.”
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