If you have been to the AAMI headquarters, you know how much we appreciate having a great restaurant on the street level of our building—The Willow. It has been on the “best of Arlington” list […]
On Aug. 6, 2015, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved the use of TV White Space (TVWS) devices in the 600 MHz band. As part of the order, TVWS devices are allowed to share Channel […]
These provocative words echo in my ears a week after listening to keynoter Jan Bosch at the recent INCOSE International Symposium in Seattle. INCOSE is the professional society for systems engineers spanning multiple domains. Bosch […]
On one hand, a quality management system or QMS sounds like a sterile, standards-based construct: a checklist of things that need to be done. Where’s the value added with all of the procedures and paperwork? […]
AAMI President Mary Logan’s March quarterly update to the AAMI community describes precisely the essence—and challenge—of safety management: Risk, not outcomes, is what determines safety. A shared challenge among medical device companies, as well as […]
Houston, we (still) have a problem. Every surgical patient and nearly every hospitalized patient receives medications […]
You will be hearing a lot more about systems thinking and the principles of systems engineering from AAMI in the coming years. Recognizing the importance of this skill for the AAMI membership, a systems advisory […]
