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AAMI News September 2019, Volume 54, Issue 9
In this issue:
- For Hurricane Season, FDA Offers Safety Tips for Medical Devices
- New Type of AAMI Resource Aims to Address Need for Rapid Guidance
- FDA Announces Two Innovation Challenges for Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Alternatives
- AAMI Nominee Wins IEC Young Professionals Competition
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For Hurricane Season, FDA Offers Safety Tips for Medical Devices
At the peak of hurricane season, the Food and Drug Administration has offered tips to safeguard medical devices before, during, and after hurricane and related disasters. This is a good time to check your disaster plan to make sure it covers all the bases.
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New Type of AAMI Resource Aims to Address Need for Rapid Guidance
The pace at which technology is evolving makes it difficult for traditional standards and TIRs to keep up. AAMI members have voiced the need to have quicker guidance on issues where limited data exist, where there is variation in practice, or where there is confusion among stakeholders.
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FDA Announces Two Innovation Challenges for Ethylene Oxide Sterilization Alternatives
The Food and Drug Administration is sponsoring two public innovation challenges to encourage new developments in medical device sterilization.
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AAMI Nominee Wins IEC Young Professionals Competition
Travis Lindahl, staff engineer for product safety at Stryker Instruments in Kalamazoo, MI, will head to Shanghai, China, in October to represent the United States at the 83rd International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) General Meeting.
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'100% Certified' Elevates BMET Team
The six biomedical equipment technicians at Kaiser Permanente’s San Diego Medical Center in California have a combined 120 years of experience and there's more.
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VA Strengthens HTM Learning and Development
The days of the go-it-alone journey to improve professional knowledge and skills are over at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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AAMI Names New Awards Committee Chair
Codi Nelson, CBET, team leader at Crothall Healthcare Technology Solutions (HTS), is now chair of the AAMI Awards Committee.
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AAMI Advances HTM Standards
A major revision of a “flagship” standard and the development of a “potentially landmark” new standard for healthcare technology management (HTM) represent a new direction in standards development for AAMI.
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FDA Recognizes AAMI Standards for Interoperability, Safety Assurance Cases
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has recognized a standard on medical device interoperability and added it to the agency’s online recognition database.
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The Big Picture: CABMET Donates Award to Project C.U.R.E.
CABMET Donates Award to Project C.U.R.E.
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Asked & Answered: Hospital Cellphone Policies
Our hospital is looking to remove or reduce our policy restrictions on cellphone use, which we feel are outdated and unenforceable. I am looking for any Joint Commission-inspected hospitals that have made similar changes and would be willing to share their experience or current policy.
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Career Center: 'I Passed!' A Career-Long Journey to Certification
After more than three decades working in healthcare technology management, Larson Holyoak, BS, CHTM, director of clinical engineering at Intermountain Clinical Engineering South Area in Provo, UT, took the advice of his manager to become a certified healthcare technology manager.
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One on One with Kevin Hera
Sepember 2019 Issue of AAMI News: One on One with Kevin Hera
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AAMI All Star: Bhaskar Iduri
Vice president of healthcare technology management and quality assurance at Renovo Solutions
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Members on the Move
AAMI News, September 2019: Members on the Move
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Standards Spotlight: Clinicians Can Help to Draft Healthy Standards for Medical Devices
Clinicians can play a vital role in the development of consensus standards for medical devices, bringing the perspective of the professionals who will ultimately use the technology and who interact most directly with patients.