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January/February 2020

IN THIS ISSUE

FEATURES

22 RESEARCH Parental Perceptions on Smartphone Use for Clinical Mobility

Colleen A. Hughes Driscoll, Mary Jahrsdoerfer, Latasha Easter, and Dina El-Metwally

28 ANALYSIS A Neurocognitive Approach to Developing Safer Medical Devices

Kate MacNamee

37 ANALYSIS Intravascular Devices with a Higher Risk of Polymer Emboli: The Need for Particulate Generation Testing

Amitabh Madhukumar Chopra, Amy Rapkiewicz, Ramesh Daggubati, Adrian Sequeira, Yin C. Hu, Deepak L. Bhatt, Samin K. Sharma, Juan Pablo Cruz, Abraham R. Tzafriri, and Elazer R. Edelman

44 ANALYSIS Assessing Correlation between CVSS Scores in Vulnerability Disclosures and Patching

Vidya Murthy

DEPARTMENTS

2 FRONTLINES

4 THE ROUNDUP

8 DID YOU SEE?

9 TEN QUESTIONS WITH...

10 PEOPLE ARE SAYING

11 ASK THE JOINT COMMISSION

48 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Innovative Solutions for Enhancing HTM Education Opportunities and Addressing the Labor Shortage

56 VIEW FROM THE TOP Don’t Be Afraid to Continuously Improve Device Processing IFUs, Urges Long-Time Leader

60 BRIGHT IDEAS From Glue Sticks to Computer Bits: Digitizing ECGs at the Milwaukee VAMC Sarah Michaud

64 CYBERINSIGHTS Cybersecurity as a Team Sport Axel Wirth and Christopher Falkner

68 SETTING STANDARDS ISO 13485: Challenges in Achieving High-Level Structure Compliance Peter W.J. Linders

72 STERILIZATION CENTRAL Working in Concert: Bridging Gaps between the HTM and Sterile Processing Departments Jahan Azizi

76 TROUBLESHOOT IT CPAP and BiPAP Machines: Similar Devices with Key Differences in Functionality Becky Crossley

78 BI&T Peer Reviewers: 2019

80 FINAL WORD CVSS Scores Could Help Healthcare Short-Circuit Risk Determination Process Robert Sayle

Developing Clinically Meaningful, Actionable Alarm Notifications

Chris Hayhurst

12 COVER STORY

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