Skip to content
  • Home
  • About Posting
  • Guidelines for Use
  • Library
  • Contact Us
  • www.aami.org

Standards

Mary Logan: Civility Matters

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on March 29, 2016November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare Technology Management

Civility has been a recurring topic of conversation in our household recently. The discussions are sparked primarily by harsh political rhetoric among grown men who evidently didn’t learn much in kindergarten. It is deeply troubling […]

Read More

Ed Burnard: Why Medical Device Standards Matter

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on October 13, 2015
  • Regulations

Sometimes the dividing line between regulation and flexibility can be unclear. Somewhere in the middle of the life cycle for new innovations, there exists a period of time when innovation slows and a crystallization of […]

Read More

Eamonn Hoxey: How Can We Prepare Standards More Effectively?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on December 19, 2014December 19, 2014
  • Medical Device Industry

This year, I have been participating in the revision of three standards of differing size, scope, and extent of use: ISO 9001, the generic standard for quality management systems to which over one million companies […]

Read More

Jennifer Moyer: Five Tricks to Help You ‘Set Standards’

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on April 8, 2014
  • Standards

As a healthcare technology professional, you can play a major role in creating the AAMI standards that pertain to a growing list of medical devices and equipment. Here’s how: 1. Select your area of expertise. […]

Read More

Jeanine Beisel: Going Behind the Scenes in a Modern Hospital

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on November 25, 2013November 25, 2013
  • Healthcare IT

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a tour of the University of Maryland Medical Center. The tour was organized by AAMI member Inhel Rekik, senior clinical engineer at that facility, and Cliff Bernier, […]

Read More

Dave Osborn: Standards Live Forever

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on October 8, 2013October 8, 2013
  • Standards

The distance between the rails of U.S. standard gauge railroads is 4 feet 8 ½ inches. This distance is a rather strange number. For you metric fans, the equivalent 1.4351 meters is an even stranger number. […]

Read More

John G. Abbott: Standards Travel—Junket or Jetlag?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on September 11, 2013September 18, 2013
  • Regulations

As those who have worked in standards development know, one of the most difficult facets of participation in standards meetings has nothing to do with the actual process of negotiating consensus and writing text.  Rather, […]

Read More

Posts navigation

Older posts

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

SEARCH BY CATEGORY

  • Healthcare IT (100)
  • Healthcare Technology Management (183)
  • Human Factors (14)
  • Management (35)
  • Medical Device Industry (48)
  • Patient Safety (94)
  • Regulations (46)
  • Risk Management (19)
  • Security (19)
  • Standards (24)
  • Sterilization (20)
  • Systems (24)
  • Uncategorized (1)
  • Wireless (17)

Archives

Blog at WordPress.com.
AAMIBlog
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel