AAMI News, April 2020, Vol. 55, Issue 4

AAMI News, April 2020, Vol. 55, Issue 4

Issue Highlights

• AAMI Coronavirus Resources
• FDA Pilots eSTART Program for Premarket Submissions
• AAMI Education Rethinks the Education Experience
• Olympus and Amplifire Team Up for Endoscope Processing

Focus On: Sterilization

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• FDA Pilots eSTAR Program for Premarket Submissions
  The FDA will select up to nine medical device manufacturers to participate in the agency’s voluntary electronic Submission Template And Resource (eSTAR) pilot program.
• AAMI Education Program Rethinks the Education Experience
  AAMI’s education suite is being reimagined to ensure participants who attend an AAMI training course, certification program, or webinar leave with practical knowledge that they can immediately apply to their professional lives.
• AAMI Exchange to Offer Several Sessions on Sterilization
  For the second year in a row, the AAMI Exchange will offer a special education track for sterile processing.
• News in Brief - April 2020
  What's new in the field?
• Olympus and Amplifire Team Up for Endoscope Sterile Processing
  Amplifire, a leading knowledge engineering platform, and Olympus Medical Systems Group have partnered to develop a new digital learning course designed to advance patient safety by improving reusable duodenoscope processing by technicians.
• Updated Resource Answers Wireless Technology’s Frequently Asked Questions
  AMI has released The Medical Connectivity FAQs, a free resource developed to help healthcare technology management, IT, and facilities management professionals understand the state of wireless tools and technologies.
• HTM Annual Leadership Exchange (HALE)
  The HTM Annual Leadership Exchange is a day-long forum held in conjunction with the AAMI Exchange that seeks to nurture leadership skills among healthcare technology management professionals.
• Postcards from the Field: Baltimore HTM Meeting Becomes Surprise Retirement Party for Founding Member
  Patrick Bernat, director of healthcare technology management standards at AAMI, sends this postcard from the field.
• Pitch Your Innovative Digital Health Solutions at AAMI Xcelerator 2020
  Innovators and startups are invited to pitch their digital solutions at the AAMI Xcelerator Pitch Competition.
• The Big Picture: Father of Clinical Engineering
  Cesar Caceres, known as the "father of clinical engineering," died February 9, 2020.
• Asked & Answered: Automated External Defibrillators
  Are monthly checks required for automated external defibrillators? Read what your peers are saying.
• Career Center: Applying User Experience and Design Thinking to Medical Device Design
  Avinash Konkani shares his idea for manufacturers to enhance user experience with their medical devices.
• ONE on ONE with Herman McKenzie on Coronavirus
  The Joint Commission’s Herman McKenzie answers your coronavirus questions.
• AAMI All Star: Cory Brennan, JD
  Cory Brennan is an advisor for medical device security services at Hall Render Killian Heath and Lyman Advisory Services in Indianapolis, IN.
• Members on the Move: April 2020
  Who, what, and where in April 2020.
• Standards Spotlight: AAMI, AdvaMed, and Bureau of Indian Standardization Talk Harmonization
  Representatives from AAMI and AvaMed, met with a delegation from the Bureau of Indian Standardization in January at ANSI headquarters in Washington, DC, to discuss their plans to start regulating medical devices and diagnostics separately from drugs.
• AAMI Standards Monitor Digest: April 2020
  A digest of items available in Standards Monitor Online.