How to Join a Technical Committee
Committees of
volunteer technical experts are the heart of the AAMI standards
program. Each AAMI technical committee and US Technical Advisory
Group has a defined scope of work and operates under established
policies and procedures.
An AAMI technical
committee makes recommendations concerning the need for new standards
and other technical publications within its area of competency and
expertise, determines when a document needs to be revised, drafts
new and revised technical documents, and develops committee and
public consensus on those drafts. Other duties, which occur less
frequently, include developing consensus on official interpretations
of standards and advising AAMI on responses to government initiatives
and other public policy matters within the committee's area of work.
Certain committees, such as the AAMI ECG Committee or AAMI Sterilization
Standards Committee, assign drafting and consensus-building to working
groups, with the committee serving primarily as a coordinating body
and filter for new work items.
U. S. Technical
Advisory Groups (TAG) and sub-Groups (sub-TAG) develop national
consensus on International Standards and Technical Reports out for
comment or vote. TAGs and sub-Tags also make recommendations regarding
other aspects of international standards participation such as U.S.
positions on international new work items, formation of US delegations
to international committee and subcommittee meetings, and nomination
of US experts to international working groups.
Many AAMI committees
serve "double duty" as US Tags and develop national standards
as well as US positions on related international standards.
Technical
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