On March 18, from 12 pm until 1 pm Eastern, the AAMI Foundation Healthcare Technology Safety Institute (HTSI) will offer a free Webinar, “Alarm Signal Standardization: Learning from the Christiana Care Experience.”
If you belong to a biomed association, you have probably seen a notice going around that requests industry members, including students, to sign a petition regarding patient safety. As a way of sharing information, please see the notice below.
It is always good to see how much everyone enjoys networking and talking with the vendors and one another at association meetings. Now, if you live in the Nevada area, you can participate in the new Nevada Healthcare Technology Association.
I am always on the lookout for resources clinical engineers and BMETs can use to help them at work and to study for certification exams. Ivan Joyner, CBET, started BMETNOW.com in 2007.
Calling all smartphone programmers: The Society for Technology in Anesthesia Engineering is offering cash prizes to the top three entrees into its smartphone contest.
Those familiar with hiring know that young people aren’t exactly flocking to the growing industry. So, how can biomedical companies sell themselves to younger potential employees? A few ways:
In 2007, Congress passed the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007, which mandated the FDA to create a unique device identification (UDI) system to track and identify medical devices across the medical device life cycle—basical
National Fire Prevention Week, October 7 through 13, also saw the celebration of the one-year anniversary of the Preventing Surgical Fires Initiative. Started by the FDA and its partners to supplement the efforts of the numerous health care organi