Clinical Engineering and Patient Safety: a forty year cycle

2010 ◽  
pp. 999-1002
Author(s):  
M. Frize ◽  
S. Weyand ◽  
K. Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Clinical Engineering

Patient Safety Trilogy: Perspectives from Clinical Engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Izabella Gieras ◽  
Paul Sherman ◽  
Dennis Minsent
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Academic Medical Center ◽  
Clinical Engineering ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Administration ◽  
Healthcare Technology ◽  
Academic Medical ◽  
Clinical Engineers

This article examines the role a clinical engineering or healthcare technology management (HTM) department can play in promoting patient safety from three different perspectives: a community hospital, a national government health system, and an academic medical center. After a general overview, Izabella Gieras from Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, CA, leads off by examining the growing role of human factors in healthcare technology, and describing how her facility uses clinical simulations in medical equipment evaluations. A section by Paul Sherman follows, examining patient safety initiatives from the perspective of the Veterans Health Administration with a focus on hazard alerts and recalls. Dennis Minsent from Oregon Health & Science University writes about patient safety from an academic healthcare perspective, and details how clinical engineers can engage in multidisciplinary safety opportunities.

scholarly journals Medical Device Risk Management from a Human Factors Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-8
Author(s):  
Anthony Easty
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Medical Devices ◽  
Error Reduction ◽  
Clinical Engineering ◽  
Natural Evolution ◽  
Engineering Teams ◽  
Adoption And Implementation

This paper describes the ways in which human factors methods can help to enhance the work of established clinical engineering teams by placing a new emphasis on error reduction and patient safety. This approach in many ways represents a natural evolution for departments that are looking to enhance their usefulness and relevance to healthcare. Several examples are given of points at which the introduction of human factors methods can reveal issues related to the safe use of medical devices that are not easily accessible by other means. Adoption and implementation of these methods offers the potential for clinical engineering departments to enhance their role of helping to ensure optimal patient safety.

The Tao of Managing Recalls and Safety Alerts

2006 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 393-398
Author(s):  
Tidimogo Gaamangwe
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Clinical Engineering ◽  
Standards Compliance ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Engineering Staff ◽  
Management Issues ◽  
The Way

Abstract Clinical engineering staff deal with a variety of risk management issues on a daily basis. These issues range from infection control, standards compliance, recalls and safety alerts, patient safety, and incident investigations all the way up to disaster preparedness. Managing device recalls and safety alerts entails several functions, such as processing, risk assessment, distribution, rectification, tracking, and monitoring. This paper discusses the basic elements of an effective recalls and safety alerts management system, thus offering the way to an effective system. The system enabling inputs, activities, and desired outcomes are discussed. The paper also presents our experience in implementing such a system and future possibilities.

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