Healthcare Technology Foundation Programs and Publications
PROGRAMS
HTF's Purpose
At Healthcare Technology Foundation we offer the following programs:
- Clinical Alarms Management and Integration - This program identifies issues and opportunities to improve clinical alarm design, integration, operation, response, and actions.
- Patient Safety and Education Program – The program provides resources for improving patient safety with the education of the public on the safe use of patient devices in the home environment. Brochures have been developed on "Home Devices – Can I Bring My Own Medical Device with Me to the Hospital?" and "Fire Safety & Oxygen: A Patient Guide." The brochures are published in English and Spanish and posted on the Healthcare Technology Foundation website. Our contact is Jim Wear.
- ACCE/HTF Marv Shepherd Patient Safety Award - The annual Shepherd Patient Safety Award recognizes a deserving clinical engineer/biomedical engineer who advanced patient safety through the design, use, support, education, and/or management of healthcare technologies. This individual could be an inventor, accident investigator, author, educator, promoter of the safe use of technology in health care, and/or other persons with recognized patient safety accomplishments. This award is administered jointly with the ACCE.
- Tools for Managing Integrated Technology Risk - The Healthcare Technology Foundation and AAMl are working together to develop and offer an education and training program to healthcare systems on systems engineering topics, with the goal of increasing the skills and ability of clinical technology professionals to apply systems engineering tools and principles to their work.
PUBLICATIONS
Brochures
Home Medical Device brochure (English) (869 Kb)
Home Medical Device brochure (Spanish) (890 Kb)
Home Ventilation Safety Guide brochure (English) (628 Kb)
Home Ventilation Safety Guide brochure (Spanish) (624 Kb)
Fire Safety and Oxygen brochure (English) (226 Kb)
Fire Safety and Oxygen brochure (Spanish) (929 Kb)
Past Reports
Articles About the Foundation and Related Activities
Clinical Alarm Safety and Respiratory Therapists (Mar 2017/637 Kb)
Respiratory Therapists' Response to a National Clinical Alarm Survey
Alarm Systems Management by The Healthcare Technology Roundtable
Philips Healthcare Interviews Healthcare Technology Foundation President on Alarm Fatigue (Trace Journal September 2013 Issue)
Auditory Assistance-Strategies to reduce hospital noise problems
The Innaugural A Healthcare Technology Foundation ExCEL Award, Journal of Clinical Engineering (Oct/Dec 2008/71 Kb)
Colloquium Report; Journal of Clinical Engineering (Jan-Mar 2008/72 Kb)
Colloquium Report, Biomedical Instrumentation and Technology (Nov/Dec 2007/1.04 Mb)
Impact of Clinical Alarms on Patient Safety (Journal of Clinical Engineering) (4-17-2007/1.1 Mb)
HTF Articles cited
Implementing a Unit-Based Alarm Management Bundle for Critical Care Nurses
April 2023
- Critical Care Nurse 43(2):36-45
- DOI: 10.4037/ccn2023418
- Stephanie Bosma
- Roberta Christopher
Impact of Alarm Fatigue on the Work of Nurses in an Intensive Care Environment-A Systematic Review
November 2020
Assessment of Alarm Fatigue Risk Among Oncology Nurses in Jordan
April 2023
- SAGE Open
- Nursing 9(5):237796082311707
- DOI: 10.1177/23779608231170730
- License CC BY-NC 4.0
- Hamza Ali Al-QuraanAmjad EidAladeen Alloubani
Smart care for dealing with nurses' alarm fatigue in the intensive care unit
January 2023
Intensive care unit nurses' perceptions and practices regarding clinical alarms: A descriptive study
April 2023
- Nursing Open
- DOI: 10.1002/nop2.1792
- License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Lei Wang
- Wei He
- Yulu Chen
A novel self-adaptive method for improving patient monitoring with composite early-warning scores
December 2022
- 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data)
- 2 Reads
- 1 Citation
Determining Critical Care Nurses' Alarm Fatigue: Developing Alarm Management Guideline
September 2019
- Nursing Open
- DOI: 10.9790/1959-0606081622
- License CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- Yaldez Zein el din
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