The Joint Commission’s home care accreditation program accredits more than 4,000 organizations, including hospitals. The home care organizations provide home health services, personal care and support services, home infusion (intravenous or IV therapy) and other pharmacy services, durable medical equipment services, and hospice services. The majority of the medical equipment management requirements for home care […]
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If a biomed thinks the downtime for a particular type of equipment in the hospital seems excessive, how can he/she find out if it actually is excessive? If it does turn out to be excessive, how can the department improve this metric? And how will it know that the measures put into place have actually […]
Read MoreHospira is initiating a nationwide recall of certain devices with defective AC power cords by Electri-Cord Manufacturing Corp in response to reports of sparking, charring, and fires on the plug of the power cord.
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Dead spots and shielded areas can prevent infusion pumps from receiving updated drug libraries. When you consider that it can be tough to find matching socks in a simple laundry basket, it should be no surprise that countless items get lost in the Byzantine world of the American hospital. For busy biomeds, the task of […]
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By involving biomeds in its MedSun program, the FDA improves device and patient safety
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