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.
Read MoreZOLL Medical Corp has issued a Class 1 recall for its ZOLL AED Plus Defibrillator, manufactured between May 2004 and February 2009, and distributed from May 2004 through February 9 2009.
Read MoreThe FDA and Welch Allyn issued a Class I recall of 14,054 Automatic External Defibrillators (AED) and MRL JumpStart external defibrillators manufactured between October 2002 and January 2007.
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Starting January 1, 2009, The Joint Commission implemented the Standards Improvement Initiative (SII). This involved revisions to the format, structure, numbering, and wording of standards and EPs. Redundant or nonessential standards and elements of performance were deleted, and similar standards and EPs were consolidated. Some EPs were split into separate requirements, and scoring categories were […]
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