AAMI 2008, San Jose, Day Three
Planning for change is critical.
AAMI 2008, San Jose, Day One
There is special focus on workflow analysis.
AAMI 2007 - Final Thoughts
I was in hog heaven at this year’s AAMI meeting. Connectivity was a major theme, and during every time slot in the program there was at least one presentation dealing with connectivity. During my presentation Monday afternoon, there was one I really wanted to see that dealt with alarm notification.
Lots of discussion centered around the […]
AAMI 2007 - Day Three, Afternoon
The crew from Lehigh Valley presented their experience creating a telemedicine system called aICU (advanced ICU). John Sokalsky lead off, describing how their aICU concept leverages intensivists and critical care nurses in a remote location to serve more ICU patients. The system improves outcomes and reduces costs - always good things. This system integrated their […]
AAMI 2007 - Day Three
Steve Merritt kicked things off today with a presentation titled, Integrating Medical Devices into the IT Infrastructure: Pitfalls and Recommendations. Steve provided a fantastic overview of their experience at Baystate Health in Springfield, MA. Steve started with the regulatory definition of a medical device:
A medical device is an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in […]
AAMI 2007 - Day Two, Afternoon
The IHE PCD crew presented Meeting the Challenges of Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise. Didi Davis from HIMSS, kicked things off describing the IHE organization, what the IHE does, and how they do it. The IHE takes established standards and through collaboration with interested providers and vendors results in a series of “integration profiles” that specify […]
AAMI 2007 - Day Two
The day kicked off with a two part session on “Applying Real-Time Integration in the OR.” The presenters started with “blood and guts” anesthesiologist, Warren Sandberg. He noted that the surgery department has limited - and frequently constrained - resources. He described the value of extending data beyond the location
What Sandberg’s describing is more than […]
AAMI 2007 - Day One, Clinical Engineering Symposium
First up today, the Clinical Engineering Symposium: Medical Device Integration Projects. A panel of rock stars will present case studies on medical device connectivity. Steve Grimes kicked things off to a full house - SRO, actually.
Case Studies from Beth Israel Deaconess
First up will be John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. His […]
