Derrick W. VanKampen With the increase in alarms emanating from biomedical devices in the clinical environment, and the surge in biomedical device networks and connecting systems, alarm integration rises from the nursing floor and demands our utmost attention. Nurses often complain of “alarm overload,” and, worse, nurse managers fear their staff will be infected with […]
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Alexian unified its departments and retooled its service contracts to reduce expenses, increase revenues, and expand the department
Read MoreThe 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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