The Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise’s Patient Care Device Domain (IHE-PCD) invites all clinical engineers, BMETs, IT groups, clinicians, and developers to attend its open meeting at ECRI Institute on October 18.
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Tobey Clark, CCE It has been 5 years since The Joint Commission Clinical Alarm National Patient Safety Goal was removed as a hospital requirement. Are clinical alarms less of an adverse event issue now than they were in 2005, or are events increasing? Are the problems similar or of a different nature? Have new facility […]
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As long careful planning and adequate time to accomplish each task, clinical engineers should be able to get devices networked and have the confidence that any data being output from those devices will be readily available when needed by clinical staff.
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The clinical engineering team at Saint Francis demonstrates flexibility, responsibility, and adaptability while sharing a manager with another team.
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Founded in 2000 as a spin-off of a University of Helskinki research project on measuring radio wave signal strength to calculate location, Wi-Fi real-time location systems (RTLS) pioneer Ekahau, Reston, Va, has developed a unique methodology to accurately determine a roaming asset’s location to within a few meters. The company’s software-based RTLS leverages hospitals’ existing […]
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