~Speakers~
Mr. John Chang
Senior-level of Clinical Engineer at Clinical Engineering Services Department, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Speaker's Biography
Mr. John Chang is the Senior-level of
Clinical Engineer at Clinical Engineering Services Department in The Johns
Hopkins Hospital. He was a candidate of Doctor of
Science program at The George Washington University. Mr. Chang has
rewarded the Outstanding Employee at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2010 and
2013; Team Award of the 7th Annual Health Device Achievement from ECRI in 2012.
Mr. Chang has developed the integration of the Nurse call System, Connexall
Notification System, RFID Tracking System, Patient Monitoring System, and Alarm
Management System. The integration system includes new hardware and software to
capture data streams from various medical devices and centralizes the
information to record systems to achieve the most efficiency and best care
quality.
Topic
The
Management of Medical Equipment Systems Integration and Data Aggregation In The
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Abstract
The
management of medical equipment systems is an important issue for safety and
cost in modern hospital operation. It is a process which helps hospitals to repair,
inspect, and maintain the safe and effective performance of the majority of the
medical equipment. In Clinical Engineering Services (CES) Department in The
Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH), there are 7 teams and 5-8 technicians per team. CES
primary manages medical equipment for JHH which is a 6 million square feet of
space and 60,000+ medical devices in the database. Therefore, it's necessary to
integrate all the medical devices. In JHH, Medical Device Integration is a
system that includes new hardware and software to capture data streams from
various types of medical devices and centralizes the information to systems of
record. There are also some ongoing integration protocols, such as HL7, TAP,
Unity, ASCOM OAP, PUSH and IHE. For medical equipment manager, only the
establishment of a complete medical equipment management system and the
implementation of comprehensive and refined management can solve many problems
and difficulties in the process and improve the overall hospital management
level.