ACCE Educational Teleconference Series
Brought to you by the ACCE Education Committee      

For ACCE members, the cost of each session is $150 per site. For non-members the cost of each teleconference is $195 per site. This allows for four (4) participants from each site using one phone line, each additional participant is $10. If nine (9) teleconferences are purchased the tenth one is free.

Teleconference CDs are available approximately 1 week after the teleconference for $50 for registered Teleconference Attendees or $150 for non attendees by credit card or check on the Educational Offerings page of the ACCE Mall. To order by check please contact: Secretariat@ACCEnet.org. Reference materials, if available, can be found on the Publications and reference tab under Reference Material.

In the 2010-2011 program, we are pleased to offer 3 programs with a variety of relevant topics:

• IT for Clinical Engineering
• Healthcare Technology Management
• ISO 80001 Primer
• Teleconference Pricing and Registration Form

The 2010-2011 IT for Clinical Engineering Teleconference Series
The teleconferences are held each month at 12 Noon Eastern Time (9:00AM Pacific Time etc). Please refer to the schedule below for the scheduled dates. Unless otherwise noted, the teleconferences are one hour long; typically a 45-50 minute presentation followed by 10-15 minutes of Q and A. Registrants will receive the call-in number and presentation material prior to each session.

Session Date	Session Title	Session Description
2-Sep-10	Medical Devices and US Healthcare Reform	The US in progressing forward with aggressive healthcare reform programs, including new expectations on how technology will play a role. Medical device integration is included in these plans and therefore, clinical engineering departments should take a proactive stance with their hospital's integration strategies to ensure secure, safe, and effective use of the patient care devices that are under their domain. At the end of this session, the audience will know more about the health reform policies that are reshaping healthcare, as well as have learned about what resources exist to support them.
21-Oct-10	PACS Administration	At the end of this session, the audience member will be able to have new knowledge about emerging trends in PACS administration, implement new design criteria that have a direct impact on the maintenance of a system, and apply best practices for the administration of a system. Integration with cardiovascular and electronic medical record systems will be covered.
4-Nov-10	Networking Basics	This session will touch on some of the basic networking topics that a clinical engineering professional needs to work with today's patient care device systems. The first step to understanding a network and its topologies is to understand how switches and routers work. Switches and routers, essential networking basics, enable the devices that are connected to your network to communicate with each other, as well as with other networks. Network management and security will be covered in this session as well as VPN, Firewalls, and an explanation of the OSI 7 layers model.
2-Dec-10	Networking Basics 2: Wireless	This is a continuation of the networking basics session that will focus on wireless technologies used with or used to support patient care technologies. Topics to be covered will be: frequency management, antennae distribution, security paradigms that apply to wireless technologies.
6-Jan-11	CE-IT: New Job Opportunities	The new national healthcare IT objectives, along with new regulations and standards associated with networked medical devices, has created many new opportunities in the workforce. Many institutions are developing job descriptions for individuals or teams to confront many of the up and coming challenges related to these networked systems. Clinical engineers with the desire to get more involved with the networking aspect of the medical device systems are now creating new career paths. This session will describe how the job market is responding to these new human resource needs and conclude with an interview of a Clinical Engineering Director that has successfully incorporated these new positions within his program.
4-Feb-11	ISO 80001-1	At the end of the session, the participant will be able to describe the patient safety-related benefits of this emerging standard, define the roles and responsibilities as required by the standard, and suggest how those new roles and responsibilities can be integrated with current staffing models.
4-Mar-11	RFID	A case-study on the use of different RFID systems in the healthcare system.
15-Apr-11	Home Health	At the end of this session, the participant will be able to identity what technologies are being used in home health, what will be expected of a CE/BMET to support a home health monitoring system (use of civilian infrastructures: cable, satellite, POTS, cellular), what are the different delivery models (Web services, interface servers, database applications, etc) and then articulate how can CEs/BMETs provide for quality of life technology to clinicians, remote monoitoring, remote alerting, etc - uses similar infrastructure but touches legacy based clinical systems more.
6-May-11	HL7 interfacing	The Health-Level 7 (HL7) are specific interfacing languages used at the application level to exchange electronic health information in support of clinical practice. At the end of the session, the participant will be able to describe the structure and function of HL7 message protocols and understand how and when to incorporate HL7 when designing a medical device integration plan.
3-Jun-11	IHE PCD	During the IHE PCD session, the participant will learn about what solutions exist for medical device integration with electronic healthcare record systems, what standards and technologies are used to achieve integration and how these systems can help achieve national healthcare IT objectives.

Teleconference Pricing and Registration Form

The 2010-2011 Healthcare Technology Management Teleconference Series
The teleconferences are held each month at 12 Noon Eastern Time (9:00AM Pacific Time etc) from September, 2010 to June, 2011. Please refer to the schedule below for the scheduled dates. Unless otherwise noted, the teleconferences are one hour long; typically a 45-50 minute presentation followed by 10-15 minutes of Q and A. Registrants will receive the call-in number and presentation material prior to each session.

Session Date	Session Title	Session Description
16-Sep-10	Real Life Risk Management	At the end of this session, the audience member will be able to: understand the basics of FMEA and RCA tools, apply these tools to the healthcare setting, and have a clear understanding of the medical device recall process.
21-Oct-10	PACS Administration	At the end of this session, the audience member will be able to: have new knowledge about emerging trends in PACS administration, implement new design criteria that have a direct impact on the maintenance of a system, and apply best practices for the administration of a system,
18-Nov-10	Incorporating Standards into Your Practice	At the end of this session, the participant will be able to connect how an international or national standard impacts the design and implementation of a medical device system and know how to get more involved with the standards-creation process.
16-Dec-10	Clinical Engineers Can Make Healthcare Safer	At the end of this session, the user will be able to articulate the different ways that a Clinical Engineering program can improve the safety culture of a hospital or health system, including, participating or chairing of a hospital-wide safety committee, using human factors and other tools to identify gaps in technology-enhanced clinical workflow, and implementing the latest healthcare technology management trends.
20-Jan-11	New PM Paradigms	At the end of this session, the participant will have learned about emerging theories around medical equipment maintenance, including Reliability Centered Maintenance and Condition Based Maintenance.
4-Feb-11	ISO 80001	At the end of the session, the participant will be able to describe the patient safety-related benefits of this emerging standard, define the roles and responsibilities as required by the standard, and suggest how those new roles and responsibilities can be integrated with current staffing models.
18-Mar-11	Budgeting and Finance in Healthcare Technology	At the end of this session, the participant will be able to analyze the costs associated with emerging medical technologies across the entire life cycle, define and implement measureable outcomes associated with the related service costs, and communicate this information effectively to senior administration.
15-Apr-11	Technology for Home Health	At the end of this session, the participant will be able to identity what technologies are being used in home health, what will be expected of a CE/BMET to support a home health monitoring system (use of civilian infrastructures: cable, satellite, POTS, cellular), what are the different delivery models (Web services, interface servers, database applications, etc) and then articulate how can CEs/BMETs provide for quality of life technology to clinicians, remote monoitoring, remote alerting, etc - uses similar infrastructure but touches legacy based clinical systems more.
6-May-11	Negotiating Service Contracts	Service contracts play a pivotal role in the total cost of ownership of a medical device system. Negotiating for the best possible agreement can often result in cost savings and clear communication about the roles and responsibilities of both the vendor and the clinical engineering representative. At the end of this session, the participant will be able to refer to examples of successfully negotiated service contracts, identify key points not to be missed during contract negotiations, and what tools are available to provide information about medical device contracts.
17-Jun-11	Staffing for Performance Excellence	The biggest resource - and expense - of a clinical engineering department or organization is its staff. Over the past several years significant developments have taken place in the availability of qualified staff, online training, competency assessment, strategic/individual goal alignment, and employee engagement. This combined with teh need for staff with teh skills to deal with teh convergence of technology gives value to updating our proficiency in the area of staff a CE epartment with technicians and engineers. This teleconference will present best practices throughout the staffing cycle - from promoting the field through staff retention.

Teleconference Pricing and Registration Form

ISO 80001 Primer
Following up to the February 4, 2011 ISO 80001-1 Introduction Session, we are pleased to provide a more in-depth look at this new standard during the spring and summer of 2011.

The ISO 80001-1 sessions are held each month at 12 Noon Eastern Time (9:00AM Pacific Time etc). Please see below for the tentative schedule. Unless otherwise noted, the teleconferences are one hour long; typically a 45-50 minute presentation followed by 10-15 minutes of Q and A. Registrants will receive the call-in number and presentation material prior to each session.

Teleconference Pricing and Registration Form for this series will be available after September 1, 2010.

Teleconference Pricing and Registration Form

	ACCE Member	Non-member	% savings
each session	$150.00	$195.00
10-session series	$1,395.00	$1,755.50	15%
IT for CE and HTM purchased together	$2,040.00	$2,652.00	20%

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1. Introduction to the CCE Exam
2. Management
   1. Overall CE Program Management
   2. Financial & Service Contract Management
   3. Technical Supervision
   4. CMMS
3. Technology Assessment
   1. Product/Vendor Selection
   2. Capital Planning
   3. Clinical Trials Management
   4. Building Plan Review
   5. Building Design
   6. Human Factors
4. Regulatory/QA Issues
5. Risk Management/Safety
6. Education
7. Product Development
8. Repair/Systems Thinking
9. Miscellaneous Clinical Engineering topics

These teleconferences, comprising 1 session of 120 minutes and 4 of 90 minutes each, were followed by a Q and A session. Presentation materials were provided by each speaker. The program has been recorded and is available on CDs. Speaker materials will also be provided. The price of the recordings is $300; for those who subscribed to the series, the price of the CDs is $50.

To order the set of CDs, please visit our Educational Offerings page in the ACCE Mall or contact: secretariat@ACCEnet.org. Checks and credit cards are accepted.