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Are You Managing Risk or Severity?

Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE Brian Poplin, DHA, FACHE, CBET The Joint Commission has officially confirmed that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has agreed to accept alternatives to manufacturers’ maintenance recommendations. So clinical engineering (CE) professionals are now reassured that they can continue to use the “risk-based criteria” for maintenance planning. However, […]

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The FDA and Networking

Robert Hijazi Several hospitals around the world are integrating medical devices into their wireless networks. The benefit is to improve the effectiveness of data transfer and the dependability of the equipment. In January 2011, I read an article that mentioned the involvement of the FDA with hospital networking. This article made me curious about what […]

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