Conference Sessions Network-connected Medical Devices: Usefulness, Complexity, & Challenges
Objectives
Many medical device integration projects are very successful and result in improved patient care and improved record keeping. Other integration projects have low user acceptability, low untilization, negatively impact caregivers and/or patients (i.e., take too much time away from patient care), high initial costs and/or high support costs, or are overly complex. This presentation discusses assessing integration projects and provides some examples of high use, highly succssful projects and examples of some overly complex, low utilization projects that probably should never have been undertaken.
Session Abstract
The rapid growth in medical device technologies has enabled tremendous and expanding opportunities for devices and systems to be interconnected in various ways and to different degrees, but it is not always clear how much clinical usage and benefit that connectivity brings, along with the associated technical complexities and challenges. This summary shares UC Davis Health’s experience and insights in connecting various devices and systems in various ways for the past 20 years in order to increase the benefits from EMR Integration in various care areas as well as from OR (Operating Room) Integration.
Speaker Profiles
After obtaining degrees in engineering, KaMan Liu contributed to medical device R&D as a software engineer for a variety of technologies (imaging, RadOnc, & ECG) at several small/big companies. He then transitioned into HTM where he evolves into be a generalist under the clinical engineering department in a large teaching hospital, where he led & participated in the connectivity of devices/systems in various OR, ICU, & patient-care settings involving OR- & EMR-Integration. He also has become a long-time adjunct faculty and coordinator for the BMET program in the only community college in N. Calif offering such a program.
Over 40 years of Clinical Engineering experience as Director of Clinical Engineering at UC Davis Health (retired) and then part-time consulting project work for a variety of clients including UC Davis Health and VA Health. Projects have included: Joint Commission compliance, pre-purchase evaluations, medical device integration with EMR, connected medical device security, medical device accident investigation, CMMS development and evaluations and much more.
