One might think that Bill Dugan, CBET, has 1,675 reasons to worry about batteries. As the director of clinical engineering services of the 300-bed St Vincent Healthcare in Billings, Mont, Dugan is responsible for 1,675 medical devices that utilize some type of battery, from lead acids to lithium ions and the occasional “smart” battery. But […]
Read MoreSt Croix Systems and AeroScout Inc announce a partnership to offer integrated asset management and real-time location system (RTLS) solutions to improve mobile devices and equipment management for health care.
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L-R: David Harrington, PhD, and Sam Downing, CEO, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, Calif, mount a monitor. L-R: Nurse Dottie Harrington and Ray Schmitt, Assist International, set up a Philips bedside monitor in the emergency room. During a biomedical mission trip to India in 1992, David Harrington, PhD, a health care consultant from Medway, […]
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Our colleague John Halamka, MD, MS, CIO of Beth Israel Hospital and chair of the American National Standards Institute/The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (ANSI/HITSP) activities, was the first person to introduce me to the concept of “quilted patchwork” to describe the odd and disjointed collage of state and federal regulations that affect health care […]
Read MoreMedical Specialties Distributors LLC (MSD), Stoughton, Mass, a supplier of biomedical equipment rentals and services, has launched its latest equipment management software, OneTrack.
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