This year, we’ve seen an even hotter-than-usual debate about the servicing of medical devices and healthcare technology, thanks in part to calls for new standards, a congressional mandate for an FDA report on the subject, […]
The latest addition to the long-running battle over adequate access to service manuals for medical devices is The Joint Commission’s (TJC) announcement, via George Mills, at the recent AAMI Annual Conference that starting in January […]
By now, nearly everyone in the HTM community is aware of the substantial and unexpected changes in Joint Commission requirements for on-schedule completion of scheduled maintenance. I won’t go into the details here because recent […]
Earlier this month, I returned home from another fantastic AAMI conference in Tampa, FL. I was inspired by many new topics and further educated on several of the familiar subjects we cover from year to […]
I’ve recently returned from the AAMI Annual Meeting in Denver—an excellent meeting for educational content and networking opportunities. Andrea Browne, a radiation physicist and recent addition to The Joint Commission (TJC) staff, gave an excellent […]
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 controversy generated by the Dec. 2, 2011 “clarification” memo from CMS to the state survey agency directors has made me stop and think about just what kind of a job we, as a professional […]
