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PHILIPS MEDICAL WIRELESS SOLUTIONSPresented By: Olivia Hecht
There are a variety of wireless
technologies in use today in the
hospital environment. Whether
using WMTS 802.11, 802.15 and/or a
proprietary RFID technologies. It is
important to understand that
technologies continue to evolve and
“one size does not fit all” when it
comes to wireless technology.
Hospital IT departments need a
wireless strategy in
place and clear
guidelines between
IT and ClinicalEngineering to
ensure patient safety when using
wireless medical devices. We will go
over some recommendations around
802.11 deployments that Clinical
Engineers can discuss with their IT
colleagues and also provide an
overview of and an update on IEC
80001. Philips Healthcare is
dedicated to providing solutions
designed around the needs of its
customers and patients. At Philips,
we believe we can make a difference
by removing boundaries in
healthcare with our innovative and
affordable technology solutions
throughout the entire care cycle.
We combine our unique clinical
expertise with
human insights to
develop solutions
that deliver valuethroughout the care
cycle: from disease prevention to
screening and diagnosis, through to
treatment, monitoring and health
management – wherever care is
given: in the hospital or at home
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http://www.icis-biomed.org/Philips
Biomedical Insight
Whether you support the network or the medical devices interfaced with the
network, inevitably IT and Biomed departments must learn to collaborate for
patient safety and the collection of useful diagnostic information. While
some Biomeds don’t feel comfortable working with networks and information
systems, some healthcare IT staff members don’t really understand the
priority biomedical systems must take or the basics of the diagnostic (pg2)
INTERMOUNTAIN CLINICAL
INSTRUMENTATION SOCIETYICIS – Newsletter Fall 2010/Annual Meeting
FEATURE ARTICLE: New Plan
Promotes Biomed Profession -
AAMI Newshttp://www.aami.org/publications/AA
MINews/Oct2010/newplan.html They are the unsung heroes of
most hospitals, toiling behind thescenes to help deliver qualitypatient care. But the lack of auniform job description forbiomeds could, some experts say,hold the profession back as
technology evolves, and AAMIwants to change that.
“With the interface of biomedicaltechnology and informationtechnology (IT), it is crucial thatthe biomedical technologyprofession be recognized as theexperts in patient safety when itcomes to equipment,” says Marcy
Petrini, PhD, chair of AAMI’sBoard of Directors and professorof medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center inJackson, MS. “Biomeds must playa vital role in that interface. Butthey won’t be recognized if theplayers don’t even have astandard job description amonghospitals.”
One of four goals in AAMI’s newstrategic plan, which will go to theBoard of Directors for finalapproval in November, is to definethe profession and qualificationsof clinical/ biomedical technologymanagers, and the profession’srole and value in healthcaredelivery.
Over the next five years, AAMIwill also seek to achieve threeother goals:
To become known in thehealthcare community as thepreferred resource for highquality and objectiveinformation on medicaltechnology.
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information sent across the network. If the predictions of key organizations
such as the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) or the
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) are
correct, we will see more hybrid professionals, the CE-IT’s! If you support
either side of the systems now, I encourage you to join ICIS to stay abreast of
the debates, the changes in industry standards and regulations, and thetechnical education opportunities that are being made available
Dustin Telford – Currently works at McKay-Dee and for earthMed. He has been in
the field 18 years
ICIS Quarterly Meeting Schedule
http://www.icis-biomed.org/calendar
Date: Feb 03, 2011 Date: Aug 04, 2011
Presenter: Bunnell Inc Presenter - TBA
Topic: “High Frequency Ventilation: Topic: TBA
From an Idea to a Device”
Location – Pioneer Valley Hospital Location - TBA
Date: May 05, 2011 Date: Nov 03, 2011
Presenter – TBA Presenter - TBA
Topic: TBA Topic: TBA
Location – McKay-Dee Hospital Center Location - TBA
To identify actions to improvepatient outcomes from theconsensus of broad-baseddiscussions on medicaltechnology.
To create awareness within the
healthcare community that theinteraction of technology,people, and their infrastructureis crucial to positive patientoutcomes
The strategic plan includesseveral very specific objectivesthat will be undertaken in thenext three years to achieveeach of the four goals. Forexample, with respect toadvancing the clinical/biomedical technologyprofession, AAMI will work to
define the competencies andqualifications that biomedsshould possess.
The goal of spurring action thatimproves patient outcomesplays to AAMI’s strengths of diversity. “AAMI is not anorganization of a singleprofession,” says Carol Davis-Smith, a director at PremierInc. and chair of AAMI’sTechnology ManagementCouncil (TMC).
As part of that the goal, AAMIwill convene an annual eventthat addresses priority issuesin medical technology. Theseevents will lead to action itemsin the form of products,services, or projects
ICIS News
James Young of Iasis @ Jordan Valley Hospital has accepted an
appointment as ICIS Treasurer.
Intermountain Clinical Instrumentation Society has been approved by
the State of Utah and the IRS as a non-profit trade group. Via
negotiation ICIS was able to reinstate the previous business which had
undergone a period of inactivity.
19 attend the Fall ICIS meeting held at Jordan Valley Hospital
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ICIS SoapBox – Don’t Join ICIS
So you have heard about ICIS
from e-mails or from a co-worker
and you are probably thinking it
is not for me or why should I join
or participate in ICIS? Maybe
you are right… here are some
thoughts to consider on why
you shouldn’t join.
You could be a newbie in the
profession and feel that you
know everything there is to
know about being a biomed.
You could think that askingquestions and interacting with
other professionals in your field is
a waste of your valuable time.
Maybe you don’t believe that
you’ll ever have any good ideas
worth sharing with your
colleagues and you think that
ICIS can’t give you an audience
of peers willing to listen and help
you improve your career. It
could be that you are not
interested in meeting the
people who not only know the
profession’s history but also lived
it and made it possible, with
their generous contributions of
time and talent, for you to even
have the job you enjoy
currently.
It could be that you are a
seasoned active professional.
You might be thinking that you
already have all the friends you
will ever need, aka “Best Friend
at Work”, and meeting new
colleagues is a waste of your
time. It could be that you don’t
want anyone to know who you
are and what you do. Why do
they need to know? I mean you
already have a job that will lastyou for the rest of your life and
you can see no value in
colleagues regarding you as a
capable professional. You don’t
care about what your peers
think about you. Why would
you want to know about a
possible great opportunity that
might be somewhere else?
Maybe you have seen it all.
There is nothing new out there
that you would like to learn from
friendly and stimulating
interactions with other
professionals that have different
backgrounds and experiences.
Maybe you are close to
retirement or have been retired
from the profession for some
time. The world is not going as
you have planned it and that
makes you grumpy. Just about
any reason is a good reason for
not renewing your membership.
You feel that everything you did
and accomplished was done
without help from anyone. Why
should you waste your time
trying to mentor the young
“whippersnappers” of this day
and age when there was noone who helped you out?
They’ll probably just annoy you
to death with their curiosity and
willingness to explore new
concepts. The world should
have stayed how you left it 10
years ago! It was working then
and should be good enough
now!!!
So, in conclusion…If the above
statements sound like how you
feel, whatever stage of your
career you are in, then by all
means DON’T join…but if the
opposite is true then please sign
up for ICIS at www.icis-
biomed.org and join
ICIS Website: http://www.icis-biomed.org/
Request for Articles/Comments to – If you would like to write and submit an article or have an improvement,
idea, or comment, please submit to: [email protected]
Request for Volunteers – There are many more opportunities if you want to offer your time and expertise to the
Intermountain Clinical Instrumentation Society, please submit to: [email protected]
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ICIS Spotlight: Bio-Med Engineering, Inc. – Robert Nannini, President
Bio-Med is the leading independent medical equipment service organization in the
Intermountain Region. Bio-Med was established in 1990 and has a combined total of over
200 years of technical service experience.
Bio-Med’s goal is to provide our customers with the highest standard of biomedical service and support in the market
place. Bio-Med is a fully licensed and insured medical service organization with established business relationships inhospitals, surgery centers, clinics, laboratories, universities, colleges, medical research labs, independent physician
offices, as well as city, county, state and federal governmental agencies.
Bio-Med provides quality service and repairs on approximately 500 types of medical equipment, including:
physiological monitors, fluid delivery, respiratory, anesthesia, sterilizers and medical lasers. Bio-Med maintains
compliance with State and federal regulatory organizations. Bio-Med is the authorized service representative for over
100 medical equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and distributors.
Bio-Med provides consulting and support to our customers in relationship with many regulatory agencies including:
*AAAASF *AAAHC *AAMI *ANSI *CAP *CLIA *TJC *NFPA *STATE OF UTAH
Bio-Med Engineering, Inc. is an Affiliate Member of Medical Equipment Repair Associates, MERA®, the nation’s oldest
and largest independent medical service organization. The President of Bio-Med Engineering, Inc. sits on the Board of
this successful and prestigious organization.
http://www.bio-medenginc.com/
In Recognition: The ICIS Board wishes to thank Bio-Med Engineering, Inc. for their contribution and sponsorship toward
ICIS incorporation as a non-profit group.
Biomedical Congress: Organized andSponsored by FMESA (Federation of Medical Equipment
Support Associations)http://www.fmesa.org/
The MD Expo is a conference of biomedical equipment
support professionals that meets in the spring and fall each
year. It changes locations and has been growing steadily.
The MD Expo consists of several instructional seminars and
the exhibit hall where service companies and manufacturers
have booths. The MD Expo is primarily sponsored by MD
publishing which publishes the magazines "Technation",
"Medical Dealer" and several others. This years meetingwas also the 2nd annual meeting of the Biomedical
Congress.
FMESA was formally organized in 2009 to bring together the
various biomedical associations around the country. Dan
Whatcott was elected to be on the executive board of
FMESA with Fred McMutrie as President and Pat Lynch as
Treasurer.
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The Mission statement of FMESA is:
"We the Associations that represent the medical equipment
Service and Support Professionals (SSP) recognize the need
to amplify a clear and unified voice. We hereby organize infellowship to promote our profession through the
advancement of standards, benchmarks, best practices, and
by fostering harmonious communications between the
biomedical organizations and the greater medical
community. Our purpose is to promote quality patient care,
safety, and efficient management of medical equipment. We
dedicate ourselves to work as agents of change to elevate
and promote a positive image of the medical equipment
service and support community"
To date several organizations have joined FMESA while
others are still waiting on the sidelines to see if it will be a
viable organization. Biomedical Associations that have
joined FMESA include: Atlantic Biomedical, Bay Area
Association of Medical Instrumentation (BAAMI), Biomedical
Engineering Society of Texas (BEST), East Tennessee
Biomedical Association (ETBA), Florida Biomedical Society
(FBS), Kentucky Association for Medical Instrumentation
(KAMI), North Carolina Biomedical Association (NCBA),
Indiana Biomedical Society, Mid-Eastern Pennsylvania
Clinical Instrumentation Society (MEPCIS), New EnglandSociety for Clinical Engineering (NESCE), and the South
Florida Association for Medical Instrumentation (SFAMI).
At the meeting in Austin it was decided by the FMESA
executive board that FMESA should try to initiate an active
role working with AAMI, and various educators to set
minimum educational standards for Biomedical Equipment
Technicians. Apparently some less than ethical for-profit
educators have latched onto the idea that you can train a
BMET in a few months without ever stepping foot into a
hospital or medical facility. These students are now seeking
employment and not having much success.
The question on everyone’ s mind was if AAMI could give its
"good housekeeping" seal of approval to a college or school
so that employers would know that the BMET student had
been through a proper course of training? (Cont.)
AAMI seemed to think that they could help but it would
have to be discussed and approved by the board. A new
educator’s roundtable will be held at the upcoming AAMI
conference in June 2011 in San Antonio, Texas. TheDepartment of Defense (DOD) training facility has
offered to let FMESA tour the new facility near San
Antonio as part of the educator’s roundtable discussion in
June.
One wrinkle that came up in this discussion was
the announcement that AAMI is considering
adopting a new formal name for the biomedical
profession. For several years it has been argued if
we are biomedical equipment technicians or
clinical engineers. Does it really make any
difference? Perhaps, and that's why AAMI has
decided to tackle this thorny issue.
The FMESA board adjourned with a commitment to assistthe educators and AAMI in establishing minimumeducation requirements. While the Texas licensing issuewas on a lot of people's minds, it's not clear if theassociations represented by FMESA want to adopt aresolution calling on FMESA to lobby for or against thistype of legislation
Dan Whatcott is President of Biomedical Eqpt.
Services – Idaho
Olivia Hecht & Sean Elder with Philips
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Wireless Applications in Healthcare
Applications
Location based services
o Asset Tracking
Voice over IP over Wi-Fi
PagingWoWs
Bedside Charting
Wireless spot check monitoring
Wireless sensing and control for
lighting and HVAC systems
Short range connectivity
between body sensors and
monitoring devices
Communication enhancements
o Event Management
(e.g. Secondary alerting
o Push to talk communicators
Workflow enhancementso Spot checks with a direct
feed out HL7
o Remote data viewing for
improved consultation
o Temperature sensors
eliminating clipboards
Improved resource utilization and
productivity
o Community hospitals
leveraging intensivists at
remote sights
o Electronic data feeds for
EMR/HERo Asset location
ISO/IEC 80001-1 OverviewA voluntary, international standard applying a risk management process for IT networksincorporating medical devices (a Medical IT-Network)
o Spanning operational phases from planning to decommissioningo Sibling documents called “Technical Reports” for further details
Three “Key Properties” –Safety, Effectiveness, Data & System Security
Creates a “Responsible Organization” that establishes a “Risk Management Process” andappoints a Risk Manager that maintains a “Medical IT-Network Risk Management File”
Accompanying Technical reports (TR): o Wireless Guidance TRo Healthcare Delivery Organization Guidance TRo Security TRo Step by Step Risk Management Process TRo Other…
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ICIS Board
President – Dustin Telford
McKay-Dee Hospital Center
Vice-President – Joe Divito
Iasis Healthcare
Treasurer - James Young
Jordan Valley Hospital
Public Relations – Clay LantzBio-Med Engineering Inc
Webmanager – Adam Drew
McKay-Dee Hospital Center
Newsletter – Scott James
McKay-Dee Hospital Center
Board Member – Robert Nannini
Bio-Med Engineering, Inc
Board Member – Dan Whatcott
Biomedical Eqpt Services-Idaho
On Point with ICIS
Coming Soon!
The Joint Commission Blotter – Updates from recent facility inspections,
new NPSG (National Patient Safety Goals) applicable to CE and Sentinel
Event Alerts.
1. Who was inspected in 2010? – Share your experience
2. Who is up for inspection in 2011? – We will look for your feedback
3. How has your institution managed the Joint Commissions Alert 42?
From The Front Line – Input from your front line CE staff
1. Tech tips/Device Troubleshooting Advise
2. Training Needs
3. Forums
Joint Commission Blotter
Joint Commission Sentinal Event Alert 42 – Scott James
“converging technologies” Health Information Technology (HIT) and The
interrelationship between medical devices, Clinical Engineering/Biomed
and HIT are becoming a increasingly necessary within healthcare
organizations.
Where is your facility, organization at safely implementing health
information and converging technologies:
Key Points:
1. Examine workflow processes and procedures for risks and
inefficiencies.
2. Actively involve clinicians and staff who will ultimately use or be
affected by the technology.3. Assess your organization’s technology needs beforehand.
4. During the introduction of new technology, continuously monitor for
problems.5. Establish a training program for all types of clinicians and operations
staff.6. Develop and communicate policies delineating staff authorization.
7. Prior to taking a technology live, ensure that all standardized order
sets and guidelines are developed.
8. Develop a graduated system of safety alerts in the new technology9. Develop a system that mitigates potential harmful computerized
provider order entry CPOE.
10. To improve safety, provide and environment that protects staff
involved in data entry.11. After implementation, continually reassess and enhance safety
effectiveness.
12. After implementation, continually monitor and report errors and
near misses.
13. Re-evaluate the applicability of security and confidentiality
protocols.