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PBME Members in the News

Articles by and about PBME Members

March - April, 2008

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.
Clinical Alarm Management Article *

* This article was reprinted with permission from Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, a peer-reviewed journal by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Visit www.aami.org to learn more about AAMI or to view BI&T's current issue.

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



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

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

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

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


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.
Petroski Article *

* This article was reprinted with permission from Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, a peer-reviewed journal by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation. Visit www.aami.org to learn more about AAMI or to view BI&T's current issue.

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 & Analagesia 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


Added to site: March, 2008
Source: PBME
Document owner: Eileen Hall

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