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Mobile Technologies enable patient centric workflows that have the potential to improve efficiency of care delivery. This session will detail how Clinical Engineering can support these initiatives from engineering solution to on-going support.

Implementing a new CMMS is a major undertaking for any organization, this session will review the key technical and operational requirements towards a successful transition.

Session will provide a model for strategically incorporating medical device hazards and patient safety risks into Clinical Engineering Program Design and Goals.

This two part session will describe the emerging opportunities, requisite skillsets, job roles, and training programs available to clinical engineers interested in Medical Device Integration and Healthcare IT. Session two will review development opportunities for service management.

This three part session will spotlight three Clinical Engineers working on innovative projects. Each speaker will address the problem they are addressing with their work, challenges they have overcome, and lessons learned along the way. Speakers: Jeffrey Peterson (MD PnP Interoperability Lab), Sheena House (VA - Memphis) & Jacob Johnson (Kaiser Permanente)

Medical Device Privacy and Security is an increasing area of emphasis for Healthcare Organizations, this session will describe tools and techniques that be incorporated into Clinical Engineering programs to manage risk in this area.

This two part session will describe the emerging opportunities, requisite skillsets, job roles, and training programs available to clinical engineers interested in Medical Device Integration and Healthcare IT. The first session will explore career development opportunities for Clinical Engineers. Session two will review development opportunities for service management.

Speakers will discuss contemporary strategies organizations are using to for medical equipment maintenance and support, tools for assessing the best approach, and lessons learned.

The emergence of network medical equipment enables equipment information to be shared in real time to support maintenance management systems. This session will describe the benefits and challenges of implementing data integration with the CMMS.

Medical Device Interoperability safety and risk management has been an area of emphasis for the Clinical Engineering and Healthcare IT professionals. This session will detail the concepts and standards that are being developed towards developing inherently safe interoperable solutions.

Hybrid Operating Room exemplifies current trends in clinical practices that exploits medical technology to deliver optimum patient care. Hybrid OR offers a common platform to interdisciplinary and multifunctional team of physicians to perform minimally invasive, image/ catheter guided procedures providing a collaboration of diagnostic and operative environment. This session will discuss the extent of medical equipment.

Continuity of Care is an emerging model as disincentives incorporated into payment reform are now impacting the bottom line. This movement takes equipment out of the facility and into the hands of patients. This session will review how leading Clinical Engineering programs are supporting their organizations in developing Home Health, Telehealth and mHealth solutions.

The evolving complexity and interconnected nature of clinical systems means that a small change to one system can have a major impact on another.  An effective Integrated System Change Management program can reduce the risk of unanticipated costs and outages as a result of interdependencies. This session will review the basics of a change management program.

The mobility of wireless medical devices provides efficiency, flexibility, and  convenience, combined with the declining cost of mobile hardware medical devices will increasingly offer wireless network solutions.  The increased number of wireless devices creates a system that is inherently more susceptible to attack, forcing a comprehensive wireless security approach. This section reviews best practices that Clinical Engineers can utilize as they assess and implement wireless solutions.

The Integrated Healthcare Enterprise has been improving the way we approach interconnectivity and the exchange of health information since 1997. This session will review the latest work of PCD and provide a practical examples describing how the standards can be leveraged by clinical engineers in the field.

Real Time Location Systems provide location data but real value cannot be truly realized without integration of the RTLS data into business systems. RTLS 2.0 is about integration to the EMR, CMMS, and 3rd party applications. This session provides an overview of the latest solutions and considerations for Clinical Engineers looking to leverage an RTLS platform.

Session focused on educating new mangers or people looking to get into management positions.

While debated for over 30 years, productivity measurements and benchmarking continue to be a challenging topic for the clinical engineering (CE) community.  At the core of this challenge is the lack of reliable indicators substantiated by actual data.   With proper precautions, such comparisons can be used as a good starting point for a more detailed analysis of the differences that could reveal substantive causes such as service scope and strategy, organizational characteristics and geographical challenges as well as opportunities for major productivity improvements.

Succession planning for CE is a process for identifying and developing internal resources with the potential to fill key roles in the organization. In this roundtable session we will learn how three organizations are managing succession planning.

As reported by professional journals and organizations – ACCE, ECRI Institute, AAMI and HTF - along with the lay press, clinical alarm hazards are a top patient safety issue related to technology. The Joint Commission has released a proposed 2014 National Patient Safety Goal and a Sentinel Event Report on Medical Device Alarm Safety. The webinar will provide resources and proven systems based on best practices to enhance alarm management and meet the Joint Commission recommendations.