Title :
Techno-surveillance on The Hospital Universitario de San Vicente Fundación in Medellín, Colombia
Author :
Trujillo, Maria ; Salazar, Francia E.
fDate :
April 29 2013-May 4 2013
Abstract :
In the Hospital Universitario de San Vicente Fundación was implemented the program of Techno-surveillance since 2009, which looks through the voluntary report the identification, evaluation, study and analysis of the adverse events and incidents caused by the biomedical equipment, to prevent their future appearance under an investigation. During the 2012 the institution achieved to decrease the avoidable problems with the biomedical devices, getting the goal of a 15%. Besides the implementation of the AMFE started, for minimize the happening of the events.
Keywords :
accident prevention; biomedical equipment; employee welfare; hospitals; technology management; AD 2012; AMFE implementation; Colombia; Hospital Universitario de San Vicente Fundación; Medellín; adverse event analysis; adverse event evaluation; adverse event identification; adverse event investigation; adverse event study; avoidable biomedical device problem; biomedical equipment; incident analysis; incident evaluation; incident identification; incident investigation; incident study; technosurveillance; voluntary report; Biomedical equipment; Conferences; Couplings; Electronic mail; Hospitals; IEEE catalog; Event detection; accident prevention; biomedical equipment; hospital;
Conference_Titel :
Health Care Exchanges (PAHCE), 2013 Pan American
Conference_Location :
Medellin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6254-2
DOI :
10.1109/PAHCE.2013.6568249
