Happy Belated Birthday to us….! The Biomed Blog is one year old. When the Blog first started last year (2/21/2008), it was a simple idea with a simple motivation behind it. Keep current with Biomed/Clinical Engineering happenings. I think we’ve been successful! When the blog first started we were barely getting 20 visitors a week, since [...]

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Over at the Biomedtalk-l Listserv there’s a debate and survey going on. When did Biomed actually start?
In an effort to find an answer a survey has been setup at surveymonkey to help determine when.
Here is some historical information shared by one respondent at the listserve:
- In 1919 the surgeon general of the US Army sent a [...]

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The FDA has published a 2009 calendar titled “2009 Medical Device Safety Calendar (Luer Misconnections). The Calendar is available for download at the FDA’s website, and Clinical Facilities can order printed copies free of charge by emailing luersafety@fda.hhs.gov.
Download the 2009 Medical Device Safety Calendar
FDA Luer Missconnections Calendar site

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ECRI Institute, the nation’s leading independent nonprofit health technology assessment organization, provides no cost access to over 25 presentations and discussions on Comparative Effectiveness of Health Interventions: Strategies to Change Policy and Practice. Learn what key policy makers say about comparative effectiveness in healthcare. Public access to the presentations and other comparative effectiveness resources is [...]

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I was in a local hospital this afternoon with my daughter who is going in for tubes tomorrow, and while I was in the lobby I got a phone call on my cell. Upon answering my cell, a security guard approched me and asked me to hang-up and shut-off my cell phone and proceeded to [...]

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I just got through reading this article on Forbes, and I felt a cold chill run down my spine. Apparently, Google and IBM are teaming and are soon going to be one step closer to taking over the world ;).
The article reports on Google & IBM’s new initiative that will allow Google Health to connect [...]

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Five newborns under a week old were killed and another injured when a short-circuiting Phototherapy device began sparking and caused the ensuing fire. The fire occured at the state-run Rajendra hospital in Patiala, India.
“The fire was caused by a short-circuit in the tubes of the machine” the hospital superintendent said.
I dont know what tubes they are [...]

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ECRI Institute , an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has issued a high priority medical device alert for several older models of infant radiant warmers.
ECRI Institute recommends the removal from service of a series of warmer models manufactured by Borning and Hill-Rom. Draeger purchased the product line from [...]

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A Study published in the Archives of Internal Medicinefinds that hospitals with highly developed IT departments are safer for patients and cut healthcare expenditures.
Makes me wonder when someone will conduct a study to measure the correlation between Biomed/Clinical Engineering Departments and Patient Safety/Healthcare Costs….
Enough of my rambeling; Here is the abstract:
Background  Despite speculation that clinical [...]

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ECRI’s has just published its first edition of its E-Source Health Technology E-Newsletter.
The First Edition of the Newletter has articles that cover the Biomed-IT Convergance, Image Guided Surgery Systems Comparison, an Introduction to ECRI’s new Benchmarking Program, and more.
Welcome to the First Edition of ECRI Institute’s Health Technology e-Source
Your quarterly newsletter will include: Health technology management issues, selection [...]

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