Evidence-Based Medical Equipment Maintenance: How to Comply with Joint Commission Standards and Truly Have a Positive Impact On Patient Care
Class Description
Experience accumulated in the last two decades around the country has demonstrated that while strict adherence to JC standards ensures survey success, it does not assure patient safety in the broader sense. It is critical to analyze the actual maintenance outcomes systematically to continuously revise and improve CE operations. This session will describe a comprehensive equipment maintenance and management program that will allow CE departments to advance beyond JC standards to achieve the goal of reducing risk to patient safety and the hospital's mission, while keeping CE within reasonable limits and preventing premature replacement of equipment.
Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE
ARAMARK Clinical Technology Services
Binseng Wang, Senior Director, Program Support and Quality Assurance, at ARAMARK Healthcare Management Services, is responsible for providing biomedical equipment and quality assurance support to several hundreds of hospital-based clinical engineering programs. He began his career in Brazil, where he worked in academia and for the government. Before joining ARAMARK, he was a visiting scientist at NIH and a Vice President at MEDIQ/PRN. Mr. Wang earned a doctorate from MIT and is certified both as a clinical engineer and as an ISO 9000 auditor. He has been elected fellow by the American College of Clinical Engineering and by the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering.
Time:
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
1:30pm - 4:30pm