| BIOMEDICAL
QUALITY ASSURANCE:
Example:
See Closed Cases, BME QA
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Independent
Review of Biomedical or Clinical Engineering:
- In-house, Shared Service,
Vendor, or other third party medical device support. The review
typically consists of an analysis of the hospital medical technology
profile, identification of problem areas, defining existing support
resources, compliance with JCAHO medical device related standards,
identification of inordinate medical technology risk exposure, and
recommendations for short and long term improvement of medical
technology support.
- Staff job descriptions and
performance review criteria.
- JCAHO medical device related
compliance.
- Cost effectiveness and
recommendations for improvement.
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| MEDICAL
EQUIPMENT REVIEW AND ACQUISITION: |
Consultation for
Administration or Selected Departments:
- Medical Equipment Capital Budget
Planning.
- Long Range Medical Technology Planning.
- Independent review of
expressed medical technology needs to determine underlying clinical
requirements.
- Translation of clinical
requirements into a set of equipment or technology specifications.
- Translating technology
specifications to form the basis of a Request for Proposal against
which medical device manufacturers may bid.
- Review of the various
responses to determine the advantages and disadvantages of the various
choices.
- Once a manufacturer has been
selected, independent monitoring of the purchase, delivery,
installation, user training, and follow-up service.
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| INCIDENT
AND ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION: |
Consultation for
Administration and/or Risk Management:
- Working in cooperation with
Risk Management, physicians, in-house biomedical staff, and regulatory
agencies, perform independent investigation and confidential reporting
for medical device related incidents or accidents.
- Assistance can be provided
for proper reporting of the incident according to State and Federal
requirements.
- Quality Control follow up
procedures to address the causes of and future prevention of similar
or related incidents.
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| RISK
ASSESSMENT RELATED TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY: |
Consultation
for Administration and/or Risk Management:
- Perform a survey of overall
hospital technology, concentrating on areas of known high risk and
areas where the hospital has experienced inordinate problems.
- Confidential reporting of
the findings to Administration of Risk Management.
- Confidential assistance to
implement corrective measures to eliminate medical technology
risk. This may include:
- Targeted physician, nurse,
or other healthcare professional training related to the subject
technology.
- Revision or upgrade of the
targeted medical technology.
- Enhanced biomedical support.
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