Save Daylight, Spend Time

by Julie Kirst 3/3/2009 12:24:00 PM

Daylight Saving Time—coming a week early, this Sunday, March 8—marks a busy day for already busy biomeds. What a task! Time stamps are critical in health care and while a lot of equipment may update automatically, a large number of devices still need the human touch.

If you have any best practices on how to accomplish this time-consuming undertaking, please share them for the benefit of all—it’s less than a week away and before you know it, November will be upon us and it will be time to change them back.

 

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Posted by Tom Wright, 3/31/2009 4:49:08 AM

Best practices
1) Make a list of all equipment, individual item to servers.
   a. Automatic change systems
   b. Manual change systems
2) Assign groups of equipment to staff for responsibility. This includes end users where time change is manual but operator function.
   a. Procedure to make change quantified by OEM.
   b. Review each procedure for confidence.
   c. Test if necessary.
   d. Impliment change on time change date.
   e. spot check automatic change systems.
     1. correct for time drift before change date.
3) Forensic actions the next normal work day for improvements.

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