AAMIBlog

On Jan. 14, I had the privilege of hearing former President Clinton speak at the Masimo Foundation’s Patient Safety Science & Technology Summit in Laguna Niguel, California. Clinton challenged each member of the audience to make a written commitment to help reduce the 200,000 annual preventable deaths in healthcare. He nudged industry to open up […]

If the January issue of AAMI News didn’t whet your appetite to learn more about an important infusion pump project at Johns Hopkins, I hope this blog post will. A report –37 pages of text, plus appendices — captures the input provided by clinicians and other experts to the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (JHAPL) […]

I’m blogging about a blog that struck me after seeing exhibits and poster sessions at last week’s mHealth Summit. Laurie Reed, an engineer at The Farm, a medical device design and consulting firm, was my inspiration. In her recent Farm Blog, she emphasized the importance of human factors in the rise of mobile health. Laurie […]

On a recent cross-country plane ride, I read the entire Institute of Medicine report Best Care at Lower Cost: The Path to Continuously Learning Health Care in America. If you have a few hours, it’s an interesting read. If you don’t, the executive summary and recommendations are definitely worthwhile. If you can manage only soundbites, […]

A group of law professors have petitioned the federal government, saying standards should be free if they are cited in a regulation. After all, free access to all kinds of information on the Internet is the norm, so, they argue, why can’t the same be true for standards? Currently, anyone can visit a government agency […]

What’s your role with the management of scopes? At a minimum, you are probably following The Joint Commission’s request that you inventory them. Attendees at last October’s AAMI/FDA Medical Device Reprocessing Summit contributed tips and lessons learned that led to a list of 10 Things Your Organization Can Do Now to Improve Reprocessing. The tips, […]

Attendees at last October’s AAMI-FDA Summit on alarm safety (co-convened with the ECRI Institute, ACCE, and The Joint Commission) contributed tips and lessons learned that led to this list of “Top 10 Actions You can Take Now” in your healthcare organization. They’re also printed (in more detail) in the post-alarm summit publication, which is available […]

I always learn something from listening to other people’s insights and occasionally have a few of my own to share, so I’m excited we are creating this new venue for starting—or continuing—conversations, sharing, and learning. If you have or need tips, lessons learned, illuminating case studies, questions, or insights about any of the topic areas […]

The recent Institute of Medicine report on the safety of health IT hit the nail on the head in saying that, “the current state of safety and health IT is not acceptable” and that “specific actions are required to improve the safety.” Interoperability is a huge systems issue that will take the entire system working […]