In September’s cover story, seasoned author Chris Hayhurst shares how one health system manages its equipment—and where it and other facilities may have room for improvement. Don’t miss out on this informative—and timely—article.
Read MoreSafety champion John Nance published an award-winning book titled Why Hospitals Should Fly: The Ultimate Flight Plan to Patient Safety and Quality Care in 2008, which encouraged hospitals to adopt aviation safety methods to reduce patient harm. Unfortunately, if hospitals were to fly as he recommended, the United States would lose all of its physicians, surgeons, and nurses in about 10 years. Learn why here.
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Knowledge earned from scientific discovery is how a discipline advances and matures, Larry Fennigkoh argues—and it is how the clinical engineering and entire HTM community can best defend itself against those who question its tremendous worth and value to healthcare.
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Gradian Health Systems is a nonprofit social enterprise that seeks to improve access to surgical and anesthesia care worldwide. Based in New York with a global network stretching from the United Kingdom to Southeast Asia to sub-Saharan Africa, the Gradian team manufactures, sells, maintains, and trains users to operate the Universal Anaesthesia Machine.
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Rigel Medical has extended its range of test instrumentation for biomedical equipment with the introduction of the Rigel VenTest 800 ventilator tester. The gas flow analyzer works for both benchtop and field service testing of all commonly available ventilators to verify that the ongoing accuracy and reliability of the equipment remains within the required performance standards.
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