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 […]
We are living in an age where we are connecting everything we do to the Internet—TVs, security systems, lights, thermostats, parking meters. Even the lowly refrigerator can tell you when you are running out of […]
Society is drowning in data and yet obsessed with new technology to do cool things with even more data. Marketing gurus compete for our attention through Facebook and Twitter, with the promise of more gigabytes […]
As I noted in a June blog on unique device identification (UDI), there was a proposal under consideration that would have required electronic health records (EHRs) to have the ability to capture UDIs–at least for […]
AAMI has been talking about the need for systems engineering in healthcare for several years, ever since we published an article about it in 2010 by Ray Zambuto and Stephen Grimes, followed by a BI&T […]
The focus of healthcare information technology during the past few years has been on the rollout of new electronic health records and the demands of meeting government-mandated meaningful use. Many of these applications and other […]
I have addressed closed-loop medical devices twice in this blog space: first, with respect to a sedation delivery system and second, with respect to insulin delivery. In both cases, there is a drug delivery device […]
