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January - February, 2010
Provider Voice Needed in Standards Setting
An article by Rick Schrenker in the Standards & Regulatory Watch section of the January/February 2010 issue of BI&T that discusses why biomedical engineering professionals should be involved in standards development as well as suggestions for how to get started.
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The Case for a Systems Focus in Healthcare
An article by Rick Schrenker in the 2010 edition of AAMI's IT Horizons. The article makes the case that as medical devices become more interconnected, a systems engineering approach to healthcare is necessary to ensure that all of these systems
work together.
Clinical engineers are uniquely positioned to apply a
systems-oriented focus to assuring patient safety through
this transition.
The Case for a Systems Focus in Healthcare**
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November - December, 2009
Biomed Paves the Way on EMR Implementation Efforts
An article in the December issue of AAMI News about the electronic medical record system at Partners Healthcare, featuring an interview with Luis Melendez in which he discusses how biomedical engineering can have an impact in the implementation of healthcare IT projects.
http://www.aami.org/publications/AAMINews/Dec2009/inprofile.html
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July - August, 2009
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Plug-and-Play for Medical Devices:
Experiences from a Case Study
An article coauthored by Julian Goldman in the Patient Safety Focus section of the July-August issue of BI&T. The article presents a case study implementation that serves as a research platform for developing infrastructure for prototype interoperable systems, a tool for presenting the ideas of medical device plug-and-play, and a means of
exploring the clinical patient safety applications enabled by interoperable systems.
Plug and Play for Medical Devices article*
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Failures and Consequences
An article by Rick Schrenker in the Networking section of the July issue of 24x7 which includes case discussions of real-life failures of networked medical devices and their consequences.
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May - June, 2009
Julian Goldman, MD wins AAMI Foundation/Institute for Technology in
Health Care Clinical Application Award
This award is given to an individual who applied innovative clinical engineering practices or
principles in order to solve one or more significant clinical patient care problems or challenges
facing a patient population, community, or group. For more information, see the
announcement on the AAMI website.
March - April, 2009
Online business news
Michael Fraai was quoted in an article about GE's Carescape telemetry platform on
April 3rd. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS120609+03-Apr-2009+BW20090403
AAMI News, April 2009
The AAMI newsletter for April includes a tribute to Rossiny Jacques written by Ilir Kullolli
in "Paying Tribute to the Behind-the-Scenes Stars of Technology Management" (page 14)
and features Rick Schrenker in the Members News section (page 18).
AAMI News, April 2009
ACCE News, March/April 2009
The March/April ACCE newsletter includes news about awards presented to two
department members by ACCE at the HIMSS conference this year. Julian Goldman, MD,
won the Professional Achievement in Technology
Award/Professional Development Award (see
page 4) and Michael Fraai won the ACCE 2009 Challenge Award (page 3). The issue
also features an article about a Workshop on Health Technology Management (HTM) in
Ghana which Evelyn Fan attended (page 8).
ACCE News, March/April, 2009
BWH Public Affairs Awards and Honors
The ACCE awards were also noted on the BWH Public Affairs Awards and Honors
web page: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/publicaffairs/Awards_Honors.aspx
Beyond the Ilities: What Makes Medical Technology Unique
An editorial by Rick Schrenker in Medical Electronics Resources Guide, Electronic
Component News/Medical Design Technology.
Medical Design Technology Article
A Double Merger: Biomed at Brigham and Women’s Hospital
An interview with Sue Schade, BWH CIO, in the View from the Top section of the March/April issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (BI&T).
Double Merger Article*
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November - December, 2008
Sufficient Evidence:
Making the Case for Safety
An article by Rick Schrenker in the Patient Safety Focus section of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology (BI&T) about the use of safety cases with clinical systems.
Sufficient Evidence Article*
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September - October, 2008
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Safety at the Point of Care
An article by Rick Schrenker in the Soapbox section of 24 X 7
magazine about clinical engineering's role in the point of care.
http://www.24x7mag.com/issues/articles/2008-10_11.asp |
July - August, 2008
Developing a Biomedical Engineering Website
for Clinical Users
An article on how to develop a website that is an effective equipment resource for clinical staff by Eileen Hall and Ellen Kinnealey. The article is in the Patient Safety Focus section of the July-August issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
Clinical Website Article*
Selecting a Computerized
Maintenance Management System
An article by Ilir Kullolli for hospitals looking to update their CMMS in the Clinical Engineering Management section of the July-August issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
Selecting a CMMS Article*
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Plug and Play Hospitals
An article featuring Dr. Julian Goldman in MIT's Technology Review about how
interoperability
of medical devices could make hospitals safer and more efficient.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/21052/?a=f
March - April, 2008
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Clinical Alarm Management: A Team Effort
An article on a team approach to managing clinical alarms
at Massachusetts General Hospital by Joan Brown and Pat Anglin-Regal in the Patient Safety Focus section of the March-April issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
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Solving System Crashes
A follow-up to a case report in the November 2007 issue of 24 x 7 coauthored by Jeff Cooper, PhD and Patricia Volpe.
http://www.24x7mag.com/issues/articles/2008-03_07.asp
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January - February, 2008
Forging new avenues of communication on the Pediatric Unit
An article in the February 21st issue of Caring (page 12) by Ellen Kinnealey, RN about how
multiple departments came together to offer a technological solution to a clinical dilemma.
http://www.massgeneral.org/pcs/Caring_Headlines/Archive/PDF/2008/February 21, 2008.pdf
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An Inspired Collaboration
Article in 24 x 7 about collaboration between Biomedical Engineering and Nursing at BWH. Includes photo and quotes from Michael Fraai and Jacinta Telesford-Ximba. http://www.24x7mag.com/issues/articles/2008-02_01.asp |
Interoperability Is Just Around the Corner—Right?
Article in 24 x 7 written by Rick Schrenker on recent progress
in the area of interoperability of medical devices.
http://www.24x7mag.com/issues/articles/2008-01_06.asp |
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Getting Connected for Patient Safety -
How Medical Device "Plug-and-Play" Interoperability
Can
Make a Difference
Article in Patient Safety and Quality Newsletter coauthored by Julian Goldman, MD.
http://www.psqh.com/janfeb08/connected.html
November - December, 2007
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System Crashes: A Case Report
A case report in 24 x 7 coauthored by Jeff Cooper, PhD and Patricia Volpe on the failure of an ECG management system.
http://www.24x7mag.com/issues/articles/2007-11_07.asp
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PBME members receive prestigious Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation
Congratulations to the Medical Device Plug-and-Play (PnP) team led by Dr. Julian Goldman
and including
Rick Schrenker, Shankar Krishnan, and Philippe Cortes. The Kennedy Award
is presented each year by CIMIT
to recognize an outstanding team whose work embodies
the CIMIT mission of innovative collaboration.
For more, read the press release - http://www.cimit.org/news/kennedyaward_mdpnp.html.
September - October 2007
Learning from Failure: The Teachings of Petroski
Article by Rick Schrenker about how healthcare today can learn from civil engineering professor Henry Petroski, who has written extensively about failure analysis and design theory. Published in the Patient Safety Focus section of the September-October 2007 issue of Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
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May - June 2007
Data integration key to healthcare goals
Article in Network World on data integration featuring Dr. Julian Goldman.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/050207-data-integration-medical.html
Getting medical devices to talk to each other
Article on interoperability in "White Coat Notes" in Boston.com featuring Dr. Julian Goldman
http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/blog/2007/06/getting_medical_1.html
March - April 2007
How to Improve It? Ask Those Who Use It
Article on innovation in healthcare technology in NYtimes.com featuring Dr. Nat Sims.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/25/business/yourmoney/25Proto.html?
ex=1178856000&en=9dce363f2134ca8b&ei=5070
April, 2006
The Delivery of Drugs to Patients by Continuous Intravenous Infusion: Modeling Predicts
Potential Dose Fluctuations Depending on Flow Rates and Infusion System Dead Volume
Article in Anesthesia & Analgesia on potential dosing errors in IV drug delivery, coauthored
by
Ellen Kinnealy, RN and Nat Sims, MD
http://www.anesthesia-analgesia.org/cgi/content/full/102/4/1147
* Reprinted with permission from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), www.aami.org. The article first appeared in Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology.
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Reprinted with permission from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), www.aami.org. The article first appeared in IT Horizons, 2010 edition.
Added to site: March, 2008
Source: PBME
Document owner: Eileen Hall
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