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Tammy M. Pelnik: The Key to Fewer Do-Overs and More Satisfied Customers

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on May 11, 2015
  • Management

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? […]

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Michael Appel: The Risk of Unknown Risks

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on March 30, 2015March 30, 2015
  • Medical Device Industry

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 […]

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Matthew B. Weinger: Why Are Our Infusion Pumps Not Smarter or Safer?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on January 28, 2015November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare IT

                                      Houston, we (still) have a problem. Every surgical patient and nearly every hospitalized patient receives medications […]

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Ken Hoyme: Systems Thinkers, Engineers, and a Systems Approach All Have a Role to Play

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on January 26, 2015
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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Ken Hoyme: Why Is the ‘System’ Such a Challenge for Healthcare?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on January 12, 2015January 12, 2015
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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Mary Logan: We Need ‘The Points Guy’ for Healthcare Data

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on October 1, 2014November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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William Hyman: Despite the Hype, UDI Remains a Work in Progress

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on September 16, 2014September 16, 2014
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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Mary Logan: Humidity in the OR and the Value of Systems Engineering

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on August 4, 2014November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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Bob Zemke and Ali Youssef: Tips for Managing Wireless Medical Devices

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on May 29, 2014
  • Security

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 […]

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William Hyman: Closed-Loop Control and Patient Equipment

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on December 16, 2013December 16, 2013
  • Healthcare IT

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 […]

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