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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To stop the spread of health care-associated infections, more attention needs to be paid to the role of medical devices and equipment, according to AAMI. This was the thought that sparked the recent two-day forum on medical technology and HAIs hosted by AAMI in collaboration with the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health, and The Joint Commission.
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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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