The first thing you should know is that I am not close to being a medical device-IT guru like the prior writers of this column—Cooper, Gee, Sloane, Olbrish, Zambuto, Schrenker—a hit list of the leaders in the field. I am a Boomer-aged clinical engineering director running an organization known in the past as a clinical […]
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Arthur R. Bartosch, BS, CBET On a crisp autumn day last October, Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, NY, was bracing for a full-blown pandemic influenza catastrophe. Physicians and nurses scrambled to ready beds, while biomeds rushed to set up enough portable blood pressure machines and ventilators in a makeshift triage area to await a steady […]
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Discover ways to balance your growing workload with these tips on time management
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Todd Cooper When President George W. Bush declared in 2004 that most Americans would have an electronic medical record (EMR) by the end of 2014, there was an implicit mandate to have device interoperability before 2015. As we entered 2009, there was a cautious sense of anticipation regarding the assignment of a common device connectivity […]
Read MoreGood news for facilities with spare or unwanted medical devices sitting around–BC Group and OMED of Nevada are teaming up to help turn surplus equipment into new biomedical test and measurement equipment.
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