| Session Date |
Session Title |
Session Description |
| May 09, 2013 | ACCE Educational Teleconference: HL7 | Basics of HL7 will be covered in this section. The Health-Level 7 (HL7) is 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. |
| April 24, 2013 | CCE Oral Exam Review Teleconference | Register here |
| April 11, 2013 | Business plan/strategy writing | An idea needs a plan...that plan needs to be written and then sold internally. A business plan is a living document that outlines the roadmap for success. This plan guides the route a business/hospital intends to take to reach certain goals and maintain them. In this session we will learn from leaders in the field on how to move from ideas to business proposals; and how to best sell them to the C-level suite. |
| March 14, 2013 | Succession Planning/Developing Leadership | Succession planning for CE is a process for identifying and developing internal people with the potential to fill key leadership positions within a healthcare setting. In this session we will learn what some ways to develop succession planning are and how to identify people to fill these positions. |
| February 14, 2013 | Wireless Networks
a. Security
b. Proprietary vs. non-proprietary | Topics to be covered in this session includes Types of Wireless Systems used in Healthcare Settings, 802.11 application in Healthcare, Terminology, Interference with Medical Devices, Security of such networks, Quality of Service, Managing Wireless Networks, Proprietary vs. Non-Proprietary and case studies. |
| January 10, 2013 | Medical Device Alarm Management | In this session we will explore medical device alarms, we will address alarm fatigue, alarm prioritization, and will discuss best practices in addressing Medical Device Alarm Management. |
| December 13, 2012 | Device Integration and EMR | Basic components of medical device integration will be discussed in this session. Some networking, integration with EMR, HL7, and project management for Device Integration will be explored. |
| November 08, 2012 | Project Management for CE
Part 2 - Clinical Point of View | This is a continuation of Project Management for CE. In this session will explore how do CE projects interconnect with Clinicians. We will explore Clinicians' expectations from projects, what is important for them, how do clinical workflows affect CE projects and timelines; and lastly we will explore how to make sure that IT and CE projects are built around the patient. |
| October 11, 2012 | Project Management for CE
Part 1 – IT Point of View | This is an area of increasing responsibility and participation for a Clinical Engineering Professional. In this day and age, IT and CE projects are closely interconnected. This session will explore how do IT projects affect Clinical Engineers, and how do we work together with IT counterparts to improve the outcome of the projects. |
| September 13, 2012 | CMS Revised Requirements | In December 2011, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a clarification of the Interpretative Guidelines (IGs) for hospital equipment maintenance contained in the State Operations Provider Certification manual. While this revision provides more flexibility than the prior IGs (which required all maintenance to be performed as recommended by the manufacturer), it represents a major step backward from existing practice in the majority of American hospitals that have been following the Environment of Care standards issued by the Joint Commission (TJC). Since early 2012, an ad-hoc group of volunteers has been assisting TJC in discussing the challenges with CMS. The progress made thus far, as well as historical background, will be provided to the audience so clinical engineering professionals can know how to reformulate their programs to meet the new requirements. |
| August 16, 2012 | Integration Strategy Development | Combining several of the elements from previous months, this session will explore the key points to consider when drafting a medical device integration strategy. |
| July 19, 2012 | Medical Device System Security | During this session, the presenter will highlight the security issues often associated with medical devices, common roles and responsibilities of both the provider and the vendor, identification methods of vulnerabilities and best practices to minimize those vulnerabilities. |
| June 14, 2012 | Risk Management for Complex Medical Devices | New paradigms and resources that address the risk management needs of more advanced, complex medical device systems. Combining 80001-1 and other relevant tools to create the most appropriate risk management program for an institution's healthcare technology. |
| May 17, 2012 | Negotiating Service Contracts | 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. Special focus will be placed on the key points to consider when developing a service line agreement for medical device systems that might include participation from several stakeholders such as the IT and Clinical Engineering Departments and the vendor. |
| April 19, 2012 | Budgeting and Finance for 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. |
| March 15, 2012 | Project Management for Clinical Engineering | Updated project management techniques, especially for those who are working with networked medical device systems. |
| February 16, 2012 | Disaster Planning for Healthcare Technology | Current best practices of disaster planning programs. |
| January 19, 2012 | Radiation Protection/CT Dose Management | A review of current radiation protection issues including new advances in CT dose management. |
| December 15, 2011 | Technology Management in Telemedicine | 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 monitoring, remote alerting, etc - uses similar infrastructure but touches legacy based clinical systems more. |
| December 1, 2011 | 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. |
| November 17, 2011 | RF Management | Building upon the networking basics, this session will illustrate how to bring all of the elements together to build a RF management program. |
| October 20, 2011 | Networking Basics: 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 |
| July 21, 2011 | Evidence-Based Maintenance: How to answer surveyors’ questions about your PM program | Many clinical engineering (CE) departments have adopted some type of "risk assessment" to reduce the amount of preventive maintenance (PM) recommended by equipment manufacturers. While this practice has been sanctioned by the Joint Commission (TJC) for many years, it has been questioned recently by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Both TJC and CMS inspectors are likely to be asking how CE departments to provide proof that the reduction and elimination of PMs have not increased patients risks. A method for determining maintenance effectiveness has been developed using a small set of failures codes to classify failures found during repairs and PM. Analysis of the failure patterns and their effects on patients allows CE professionals to compare different maintenance strategies and justify strategies changes, such as decreasing or eliminating PM, changing PM tasks, and deploying statistical sampling. Besides providing evidence to TJC and CMS inspectors, this approach saves valuable time that can be used to increase communication with and enhance training of clinical users, thus contributing much more effectively to patient safety and throughput of care delivery. By Binseng Wang (Note: This date changed from 20-Jan-11) |
| June 16, 2011 | Staffing for Performance Excellence | By Michael Lane & Tobey Clark (Healthcare Technology Management series). 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 the need for staff with the skills to deal with the 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. |
| June 2, 2011 | IHE PCD | By Steve Merritt (IT for Clinical Engineering series). 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. |
| May 19, 2011 | Negotiating Service Contracts | By Jonathan Gaev (Healthcare Technology Management series). 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. |
| May 5, 2011 | HL7 Interfacing | By Jim Rizzo (IT for Clinical Engineering series). 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. |
| April 14, 2011 | Home Health | By Henry Stankiewicz (IT for Clinical Engineering series). 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. |
| March 17, 2011 | Budgeting and Finance in Healthcare Technology | By David Dickey (Healthcare Technology Management series). 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. |
| April 15, 2010 | Standards and Standards efforts in the Medical Device-Information System Interface | Consulting, LLC It will provide a review of all the current efforts in the standards arena pertaining to medical device interoperability to include The Continua Alliance, IHE-PCD, ASTM and HITSP. Find out what is new and how a CE or BMET can use the information to better manage any interoperability projects they may have. |
| March 18, 2010 | How to Manage a Successful Imaging Services Group? | Description coming soon |
| February 18, 2010 | The Joint Commission Update | This session will provide an update on the Joint Commission standards, scoring and survey process for medical equipment. |
| January 21, 2010 | Benchmarking Best Practices & CE Performance Data | AAMI's Benchmarking Solution is an online self-assessment tool for clinical engineering programs. It combines quantitative benchmarking with qualitative review of best practices. In this session you'll hear from two of the "subject matter experts" who helped design the tool. You'll learn about the design of a tool that integrates best practices and benchmarking measures to effective compare individual CE programs with each other, creating an effective performance improvement initiative. |
| December 17, 2009 | Evidence-Based Maintenance | Clinical engineering (CE) professionals have realized for some time that the "preventive maintenance" (PM) that they have been performing for many years is no longer able to prevent any failures, although some safety and performance inspections (SPIs) can help detect hidden and potential failures that affect patient safety. To help CE professionals decide whether they should continue to PM or not, a systematic method for determining maintenance effectiveness has been developed. This method uses a small set of failures codes to classify problems found during repairs and PMs and SPIs. Analysis of the failure patterns and their effects on patients and users allows CE professionals to compare different maintenance strategies and justify changes in strategies, such as decreasing scheduled maintenance, deploying statistical sampling, or even eliminating scheduled maintenance. |
| November 19, 2009 | IHE Status & Update | Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) International brings health I.T. users and vendors together to identify and develop open standards-based solutions to specific real-world integration problems. The IHE Patient Care Device (PCD) group has not only worked on general medical device interoperability issues but is now focusing on the use of I.T. for Medical Equipment Management (MEM). This session reviews the IHE PCD work program with special emphasis on MEM white paper and development of related profiles. |
| October 15, 2009 | IEC 80001 Application of risk management for ITnetworks incorporating medical devices | This session will review the IEC 80001-1 draft standard, which is scheduled for release in late 2010, and examine issues and strategies for its application to biomedical and clinical engineering practices. It will also look beyond the foundational IEC 80001-1 standard to other proposed guidance documents that will facilitate implementation projects and technology specific applications. The standard is being co-developed by the ISO TC215 / IEC SC62A Joint Working Group 7. |
| September 17, 2009 | NFPA 99 changes Affecting Clinical Engineering | "NFPA 99 - Health Care Facilities" has undergone a major revision. The new document is now a Code (similar to National Electrical Code or Life Safety Code) rather than a voluntary standard. A Code is designed to be adopted into law by different Authorities Having Jurisdiction. The NFPA 99 committee made a strong effort to strip out the "nice to have" language and only leave the "need to have" language. The Clinical Engineering community needs to understand the resulting document, especially if adopted into law in their area. Major changes include removing the requirement for periodic electrical safety checking. The requirements regarding isolated power in the operating room have been strengthened over the previous edition. |
| August 20, 2009 | How to Prepare for the Certified Biomedical Equipment Technician (CBET) Exam? | This session will provide an overview of the CBET Exam offered by the ICC/USCC. It will review the application process, eligibility requirements and resources including teleconference series available to prepare for the exam. |
| July 16, 2009 | How to Prepare for the Certification in Clinical Engineering (CCE) Exam? | This session provides an overview of the CCE exam, the application process, eligibility requirements and resources offered by ACCE to prepare for the exam. |
| April 16, 2009 | Cardiology PACS & Clinical Engineering: A Case Study Of Clinical Reporting | Designing and implementing a cardiology information system* for a large multi-hospital system focusing on the echo clinical reporting process. Clinical engineering’s role, IT and clinical users’ relationships will be presented, including: electronic interfaces to PACS (DICOM, HL-7); workflow analysis and implementation; accreditation and regulatory compliance; training; clinical and technical support. *The system serves 6 hospitals, over 85 cardiologists, and performs more than 20,000 cardiac echo procedures per year. It also incorporates cathlab, hemodynamic monitoring, charting, and vascular studies. |
| March 19, 2009 | Challenges of Wireless Communications | Teleconference description coming soon |
| February 19, 2009 | Radiation and MRI Safety issues | Teleconference description coming soon |
| January 15, 2009 | Reliability Centered Maintenance | This session will describe how Reliability-centered Maintenance (RCM) differs from traditional maintenance and what benefits the biomedical equipment maintenance community can reap from adopting its basic principles. Analytically it focuses on finding ways to maintain the function of the equipment system, achieving the desired end result with a minimum of downtime and an acceptable level of safety. The heart of the RCM method consists of defining precisely, in functional terms, the nature of the desired end result, then identifying and analyzing what typically goes wrong, and why. This understanding is gained by performing what is known as a failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA). Although it takes a little effort to crack the code and become familiar with RCM’s own particular jargon, this new discipline is robust and logical. The big pay-off is that it provides precise criteria for deciding whether or not proactive maintenance will be cost-effective, and - if interval-based maintenance is cost-effective – just how often those tasks should be performed. |
| December 18, 2008 | Emerging Technologies for Surgery | This session will describe the latest technology developments being used or contemplated for surgical interventions. Recent advances in robotics and information technology are introducing a new era in surgery in which surgeons, trained in virtual reality (instead of on human patients) will plan and rehearse procedures in a patient-realistic 3-D simulation then, with advanced robotic assistance, do procedures that cannot be done with available hand-held instruments. Interposing a robotic interface between the surgeons hand and the patient promises to improve accuracy, reduce variation, and deliver a huge benefit to society as outcomes improve and patient recovery times decrease. 21st Century surgery will be supported by three main technology pillars: Surgical Robotics, Medical Simulation, and Objective Assessment of Surgical Skill. |
| November 20, 2008 | Interfacing physiological monitors to an Electronic Medical Record | This case study describes an interface project that connected over 100 bedside monitors to an electronic medical record. The case study includes project planning, hardware and software installation and testing, end-user training, Clinical Engineering and IT roles and collaboration, final implementation, and post-implementation support (short and long-term). Reports, data mining and future plans will also be discussed. |
| October 16, 2008 | 2009 Joint Commission Medical Equipment Standards | This session will discuss the Standards Improvement Initiative (SII) Project (including the revised scoring process), and review the 2009 environment of care Medical Equipment Standards. There will be time allotted for Questions & Answers. |
| September 18, 2008 | Demystifying IT/Telecommunications - What BMETs and CEs must know? | As the convergence between biomedical engineering and information technology progresses, it becomes imperative that clinical engineers and BMETs have a broad understanding of networking and telecommunication ideology. This teleconference will provide an overview of the terminology, definitions and practical implementations of networking and telecommunications with specific examples in the clinical systems arena. |
| August 21, 2008 | NFPA 99 changes Affecting Clinical Engineering | NFPA 99 is going through a major re-write that will change it to NFPA 99 Healthcare Facilities Code. It is being rewritten as a Code specifically as an invitation to local authorities to adapt it into law by reference. The presentation will be discussing the rationale for turning this voluntary standard into a code and the major changes that are proposed to the document. The NFPA Report on Proposals will be mailed (and available on NFPA web site) on 6/20/2008. It will be open to public comment up until 8/29/2008. This document lists all the public proposals received for changing the existing document, committee responses to those proposals and committee proposed changes. The revised document will adopted at June 2009 NFPA annual meeting. There will be many changes to the document that affect the Clinical Engineering community. You should be aware of these proposed changes and send in public comments about the proposals. |
| July 17, 2008 | How to Prepare for the Certification in Clinical Engineering (CCE) Exam? | This session provides an overview of the CCE exam, the application process, eligibility requirements and resources offered by ACCE to prepare for the exam. |
| March 20, 2008 | Can we leverage Medical Device Interoperability to Decrease Preventable Adverse Events? | Teleconference description coming soon |
| February 21, 2008 | Responding to Medical Device Incidents | An important role of clinical engineering is to respond to adverse incidents in which a medical device is implicated. There are many issues related to such a response such as methodology, potential reporting requirements, and possible patient compensation or litigation. The latter requires careful compliance with peer review requirements. This presentation will provide an overview of these |
| January 17, 2008 | Is There a Relationship Between Equipment Design and Use Error? A Human Factors Engineering Tutorial | Why is human factors engineering critical to the design and development of medical equipment? How can a clinical engineer determine how much human factors engineering went into a piece of equipment and why it is important to know this? |
| December 20, 2007 | Evaluating Medical Equipment Battery Failures Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) | FMEA, which has been embraced by the Joint Commission, is an effective tool that prevents failures before harm is done. The presentation will provide some simple examples of how FMEA can be applied to medical equipment battery failures. |
| November 15, 2007 | Medical Device Security & HIPAA | This presentation will review the developments in medical device security since HIPAAs Security Rule became effective in April 20, 2005 and just over a year after the Enforcement Rules effective date. The discussion will provide updated information on tools and resources available to address medical device security and will address industrys current best practices. It will further describe how security now relates to and needs to be seen in context with the larger issue of medical and information technology convergence. |
| October 18, 2007 | Emerging Trends and Technology in Healthcare | This session will describe the latest trends in healthcare influenced by technology affecting such diverse areas as the cardiac catherization lab, neurosurgery, and radiology and plant operations. |
| September 20, 2007 | Using Data to Determine Maintenance Planning | This teleconference will address the basic requirements for implementation of Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) program as it applies to medical equipment. Structure, implementation, and functionality of an RCM program will be reviewed and discussed. |
| August 18, 2007 | Understanding the Four Joint Commission Vulnerabilities for Medical Equipment | Vulnerability #1: The Survey Planning Session – Medical equipment documents that will be reviewed on the morning of the first survey day and how to ensure that you’re ready! Vulnerability #2: The Facility Tour – What the survey team members will look for with regard to medical equipment while touring the hospital and how to be prepared. Vulnerability #3: The EC Interview – Documentation that must be available and questions that biomedical staff will be asked during the interview session. Vulnerability #4: The EC Tracers – Likely questions that will be asked of the clinical staff with regard to medical equipment and how to prepare device "users" for the biomedical tracers. |
| July 19, 2007 | Why many companies are adding a Chief Customer Officer | There is no question that excellent customer service is an important differentiator, and these days everyone needs a good service differentiator. But talking about it and having it are two different things. It is, as they say – not rocket science. The presentation will offer a few simple but effective take-aways. |
| June 21, 2007 | Isolated Power Systems: A Solution in Search of a Problem? | Healthcare facilities continue to install isolated power systems. Do they provide benefits that justify their substantial cost? This presentation will help you decide. |
| February 15, 2007 | Radiology – Latest developments in PACS | Todd Starnes from Catawba Valley Medical Center will review the latest developments in PACS. The speaker will address the interconnection of PACS with other clinical applications in healthcare. |
| January 18, 2007 | Economical impact on clinical engineering | Wayne Morse of Morse Medical, Inc. will discuss the needs of the present and future healthcare system. |
| December 14, 2006 | Emergency Planning | Yadin David of Texas Children’s Hospital and Douglas Dreps, Memorial Hermann Hospital will help clinical engineering staff better understand their role in emergency preparedness planning and will be based on experience gained from operating before, during and after an extraordinary natural disaster at two hospitals in Houston, Texas. |
| November 16, 2006 | The impact of wireless implementations on patient safety in healthcare | Rick Hampton from Massachusetts General Hospital will present on wireless implementations in healthcare and their impact on patient safety. |
| October 19, 2006 | Patient Safety; Incident investigation and reporting | Glenn Scales from Duke University Medical Center will lead a presentation on incident investigations, reporting of incidents, sharing of the recommendations and their implementations. |
| September 21, 2006 | Operating Room of the Future | Julian Goldman and Warren Sandberg from Massachusetts General Hospital will share their experiences in the design and deployment of the OR of the future including the interconnectivity of medical technologies to increase process flow, patient and user safety and effectiveness. |
| August 17, 2006 | The convergence between Information Systems and Clinical Equipment Management | The presenter will share successful experiences in the integration between IT and CE departments and its impact on operation and patient safety. Speaker to be announced. |
| July 20, 2006 | Regulatory updates on JCAHO | Ode Keil formerly of JCAHO will review the latest updates from JCAHO and what to expect from the surveyors. |
| June 15, 2006 | Human Factors Applications in Healthcare | Rani Gebara from Beaumont Services Company, L.L.C. will discuss how clinical engineers and other healthcare professionals can apply the principles of human factors to patient safety and medical technologies leading to a safer and more effective healthcare environment. |
| May 18, 2006 | Women as engineers and technicians in the field of clinical and biomedical engineering | Sally Goebel of Siemens Medical will discuss the present and the future environment for women in the field of clinical and biomedical engineering. |
| December 15, 2005 | CBET Exam Prep | |
| November 17, 2005 | RFID Developments | |
| October 20, 2005 | JCAHO Changes | |
| September 15, 2005 | CCE Exam Preparation | (1-1/2 hour session) |
| August 18, 2005 | Computer Security | |
| July 21, 2005 | Cell Phone Developments | |
| June 16, 2005 | Clinical Alarms | |
| May 19, 2005 | Medical Device Security & HIPAA Compliance | |
| May 19, 2005 | CBET Prep | (1-1/2 hour session) |
