In the March 1971 issue of Good Housekeeping, Ralph Nader wrote an article about the risk of electrical shock caused by medical equipment in hospitals. Our industry responded by testing medical equipment for leakage current […]
I had the opportunity to attend the December FDA public workshop, which focused on the distinction between medical device servicing and remanufacturing activities. I do not intend to cover all the specifics of the workshop here. […]
Why are you wasting so much time figuring out how to get new medical equipment safely on the network? It really doesn’t make sense to reinvent the wheel over and over when you could be working […]
We like to pretend we know how to measure risks and benefits and then compare them. While risk is perhaps a little more developed in terms of the now-classic combination of severity and frequency (likelihood), […]
Patient experience is a primary focus of healthcare organizations. When new patients arrive, the typical hospital campus environment is terra incognita to them: Where do I register? How do I get to the lab? Where […]
The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly ubiquitous in our everyday lives. By some estimates, the IoT in healthcare will grow from a market size of $60 billion in 2014 to […]
There are few careers that can build leadership and teamwork, directly impact patient care, expand technical knowledge, improve medical systems, and bring value to a medical facility quite like biomedical engineering. The field has grown […]
