4th International Clinical Engineering and Health Technology Management Congress

Congress Day 1 Recap

• Presented by: Tom Judd, Yadin David, Kallirroi Stavrianou, and Luis E. Fernández

COVID-19 Grand Challenges by Jitendar Sharma

Global Clinical Engineering Alliance by Yadin David

IV ICEHTMC Healiom Sponsor Presentation

• Presented by: Ash Damle, CEO

AAMI’s 7 New HTM Resources and How They Affect You!

• Presented by: Danielle McGeary, Vice President

IFMBE CED & GCEA Global Clinical Engineering Awards

Crisis Management in Clinical Engineering during Pandemic - ABEClin plan.

• Presented by: Alexandre Souza Ferelli
• Co-authors: Alexandre Souza Ferelli, Bruno Andreas Sousa de Camargo V. Roma, Ana Paula Lemes J. Santos, Ricardo Alcoforado
  
• Affiliation: ABEClin, Brazil

Device acceptance in an unregulated environment, working through AIIC.

• Presented by: Umberto Nocco & Lorenzo Leogrande
• Co-authors: Umberto Nocco, Lorenzo Leogrande, Daniele Megna, Roberto Belliato, Vincenzo Ventimiglia, Costantino Carraro, Fabio Valentini, Alberto Lanzani, Elio Patetta, Massimo Giuliani
• Affiliation: Associazione Italiana Ingegneri Clinici (AIIC), Italy
  

Inspiring the Activities of CE Association - Bangladesh (CEAB): Controls of Quality HTM Outcomes.

• Presented by: Mohiuddin Ahmad & Anwar Hossain
• Co-authors: Mohiuddin Ahmad, Anwar Hossain, Mostafa Kamal, Nashid Rahman, Tom Judd, Yadin David, Dhrubo Ahmad, Moinul
  Shuvo, Adriana Velázquez Berumen, Md. Ashrafuzzaman
  
• Affiliation: IICT, KUET, Bangladesh

International Data Base About CE Role and Mission, AFIB Association Partner with NGO HUMATEM.

• Presented by: Abderrahim Benhagoug & Benoît-Pierre Ligot
• Co-authors: Abderrahim Benhagoug
  
• Affiliation: AFIB-FRANCE/ Public Hospitals of Marseille, France

SABI Training Assurance on Medical Devices Use.

• Presented by: Marcelo Lencina & German Giles
• Co-authors: German Giles, Marcelo Lencina
  
• Affiliation: Schiller Americas, Argentina

BEAI: Covid-19 in Acute Healthcare Setting in Irish Health Service, Hospital Manager & CE approach.

• Presented by: Peter Grainger & Brian Kearney
• Co-authors: Peter Grainger & Brian Kearney
  
• Affiliation: Ireland

CE organization knowledge and holistic thinking as a strategy for decision making with an isolation case study.

• Presented by: Paula Berrio
• Co-authors: Paula Berrio
  
• Affiliation: Pablo Tobon Uribe Hospital, Colombia

Activities of the Japan Association for Clinical Engineers (JACE) against COVID-19: bacterial controls case study.

• Presented by: Keiko Fukuta & Jun Yoshioka
• Co-authors: Keiko Fukuta, Fumika Aoki, Takeshi Ifukuta
  
• Affiliation: Medical Center for Translational and Clinical Research Development of Medical Innovation, Osaka University Hospital, Japan
  

Global Award Winner Society feature: ABEClin, Alexandre Ferelli, Ricardo Alcoforado Maranhão Sá, Bruno Roma (English subtitles).

Challenges of Quality Assessment of Critical Equipment and Supplies for Oxygen Delivery in the WHO global supply chain system.

• Presented by: Gabriela Jimenez Moyao & Laura Alejandra Velez Ruizgaitan
• Co-authors: Gabriela Jimenez Moyao, Laura Alejandra Velez Ruiz Gaitan, Ingrid Lara
  
• Affiliation: World Health Organization (WHO), Switzerland

Women in Clinical Engineering as Leaders in Healthcare - What can everyone learn from their knowledge and experience?

• Presented by: Jennifer DeFrancesco & Team (Priyanka, Shija Daniel & Dikeledi Modipa)
• Co-authors: Jennifer DeFrancesco, Priyanka, Shiga Dil., Carol Davis-Smith, Mara Pare
  
• Affiliation: Carol Davis-Smith & Associates, LLC, USA

Development of an ultra-low temperature monitoring system for the preservation of COVID vaccines.

• Presented by: Kevin Salinas-Bello & Sandra Rocha
• Co-authors: Kevin Salinas-Bello, Sandra Rocha, Ashmed Garcia-Ruiz
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Department Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia Mexico, Mexico
  

The Societal Engineer: Engineer Socially, Aim Globally.

• Presented by: Hanan Al Awadhi
• Co-authors: Hanan Al Awadhi
  
• Affiliation: Kuwait Association for Biomedical Engineers, Kuwait

A benchmark scheme to manage non-COVID - 19 patients based on fuzzy TOPSIS method.

• Presented by: Neven Saleh
• Co-authors: Neven Saleh
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, Shorouk Academy, Egypt

CE Credentialing - as a challenge and for encouraging development.

• Presented by: Ewa Zalewska
• Co-authors: Ewa Zalewska
  
• Affiliation: Regional Consultant in Medical Engineering, Poland

Singapore Clinical Engineers Assisting CE Development in Myanmar.

• Presented by: Peck Ha Tan
• Co-authors: Peck Ha Tan, Tji Leng Chua, Kannathal Natarajan
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering Society, Singapore

Medical Device Regulation in Mexico.

• Presented by: Lorena Garza
• Co-authors: Lorena Garza
  
• Affiliation: Mexico

CE response to national COVID19 Oxygen needs in Rwanda.

• Presented by: Francine Umutesi
• Co-authors: Francine Umutesi
  
• Affiliation: Rwanda

MedCrypt - How much medical device security is enough?

• Presented by: Seth Carmody & Mike Kijewski
• Co-authors: Seth Carmody, Mike Kijewski
  
• Affiliation: MedCrypt, USA

Cyber Tygr - Mayo Clinic's Best Practices for HTM Cybersecurity.

• Presented by: Ty Greenhalgh
• Co-authors: Ty Greenhalgh
  
• Affiliation: MedCrypt, USA

Masimo - Pulse Oximeter Sensor Management, A Culture Of Going Green.

• Presented by: Allan Palmer & Jennifer Jackson
• Co-authors: Allan Palmer & Jennifer Jackson
  
• Affiliation: Strategic Marketing, Masimo Corporation, USA

SteriPro - Reprocessing of N95 Respirators in Healthcare Facilities.

• Presented by: Anas Aljabo
• Co-authors: Anas Aljabo
  
• Affiliation: SteriPro Canada, Canada

Healiom - Say Goodbye to Scheduled-Based Care.

• Presented by: Sean Howse
• Co-authors: Sean Howse
  
• Affiliation: Healiom, USA

Diameter - Healthcare Data Disorder. Cured.

• Presented by: Eric Rosow
• Co-authors: Eric Rosow
  
• Affiliation: Diameter Health, USA

ECRI Healthcare Technology Planning.

• Presented by: Eric Woo
• Co-authors: Eric Woo
  
• Affiliation: Malaysia

Description of the technology of radiotherapy for Bolivia.

• Presented by: Andres Oliver Zapata
• Co-authors: Andres Javier Oliver Zapata, Isabel Morales, Samuel Cespedes
  
• Affiliation: Caja Nacional de Salud, Bolivia

Freemium SaaS Model for CE CMMS During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Emergency Ventilator case study.

• Presented by: Luis Fernandez
• Co-authors: Luis Fernandez
  
• Affiliation: TINC CMMS

Covid-19 Prediction with eXtreme Gradient Boosting Regressor.

• Presented by: Ricardo Silva
• Co-authors: Ricardo Silva, Darwin Patino
  
• Affiliation: Venezuela/USA

Unusual Times Call for Bold Changes in the HTM-related Profession for Cybersecurity.

• Presented by: Axel Wirth
• Co-authors: Axel Wirth, Stephen Grimes
  
• Affiliation: MedCrypt / Strategic Healthcare Technology Associates, USA

Applying Process Control Engineering to National Care Delivery Networks.

• Presented by: Derek Ritz
• Co-authors: Derek Ritz
• Affiliation: ecGroup Inc., Canada

Scalable Telehealth Systems for Providing Psychopathic Therapies to Rehabilitate Youth Drug Abusers.

• Presented by: Tasnuba Tabassum Mourin
• Co-authors: Tasnuba Tabassum Mourin, Md. Ashrafuzzaman, Nawrin Tasnim, Md. Sakib Abrar Hossain, Monjurul Ahsan
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, Military Institute of Science and Technology, Bangladesh

Software and AI for medical devices.

• Presented by: Kangping Lin
• Co-authors: Kangping Lin, Mei-Feng Chen, Ming-Chih Yang, Chien-Wen Lai
  
• Affiliation: Chung-Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, Province of China

CE telemonitoring in Cystic Fibrosis beyond COVID-19 using NASSS-CAT framework for wider considerations in scale-up and sustainability.

• Presented by: Michael Duane
• Co-authors: Michael Duane, Frank Kirrane, Brendan Tuohy
• Affiliation: Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Galway University Hospital, Ireland
  

Development of a Set of Minimum Requirements for Remote Patient Monitoring Solutions.

• Presented by: Meabh Smith
• Co-authors: Meabh Smith
• Affiliation: Beaumont Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

Using Natural Language to analyze Epidemiology Trend of COVID-19.

• Presented by: Xioalu Fei
  
• Co-authors: Xioalu Fei
• Affiliation: Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University, China

National Survey and Digital Communication Instruments to Foster the CE Role.

• Presented by: Anna Stefani & Manuela Appendino
  
• Co-authors:Anna Stefani, Elisa Panero, Maria Agnese Pirozzi, Serena Bertoldi, Giusi Di Salvio, Luca Radice, Alice Bellini, Veronica Moi, Francesca Albano, Veronica Crognaletti, Manuela Appendino
  
• Affiliation: WWE, Italy

Towards a Glocal CE Body of Knowledge: Proposed Framework & Strategy.

• Presented by: Mladen Poluta
  
• Co-authors: Mladen Poluta
  
• Affiliation: Western Cape Dept. of Health, South Africa

Clinical Engineering Education at Graduate Level.

• Presented by: Frank Painter
  
• Co-authors: Frank Painter
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA

Technical support for medical device management in Vietnam during the COVID19 pandemic.

• Presented by: Tatsunori Ogawa
  
• Co-authors: Tatsunori Ogawa, Masahiko Doi, Yoshitaka Kawasaki, Chieko Matsubara, Risa Narita, Kumi Inaba, Ayano Yokota, Yuiko Kawakami, Kent Torita, Takashi Fukaya, Koji Miyasaka, Satoshi Watanabe, Hideaki Nakauchi, Hiroaki Motokawa, Hironori Izumikawa, Naoya Kato, Noriko Fujita, Shigeru Hosaka
  
• Affiliation: Department of Clinical Engineering, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan

Holistic training platform construction and practice based on integrated health care system and CE society.

• Presented by: Zheng Kun
  
• Co-authors: Zheng Kun, Jingyi Feng
  
• Affiliation: Logistic Service Department, Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicin, China
  

CE Commission of Biomedical Engineers College (CIB) to establish National Certification.

• Presented by: Victoria Eugenia Gonzalez Gutierrez & Ana Bertha Pimentel Aguilar
  
• Co-authors: Victoria Eugenia Gonzalez Gutierrez, Ana Bertha Pimentel Aguilar, Silvia Rodríguez Alfaro, Elizabeth Orencio Lizardi,
  Sandra Luz Rocha Nava
  
• Affiliation: Mexico

Clinical Engineering Academy: New Approaches for Participation & Continuous Education.

• Presented by: Murilo Conto & Saide Calil
  
• Co-authors: Murilo Conto, Saide Calil, Antonio Gibertoni, Eduardo J. Valadares, José A. Ferreira, Leria F. Holsbach, Fotini Toscas, Fernando Andrade
  
• Affiliation: Universidade de Campinas/Boston Scientific, Brazil
  

Application of ROC curve in timing evaluation of preventive maintenance of medical equipment.

• Presented by: Lin Zhongkuan
  
• Co-authors: Lin Zhongkuan, Zheng Kun
  Affiliation: Children’s Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicin, China
  

CE-HTM medical Education for Tanzania.

• Presented by: Moonsoo Yoon
  
• Co-authors: Moonsoo Yoon, Bertha Francis Kavishe, Michael Cheng
• Affiliation: Graduate School of Public Health, Yonsei University, South Korea

Evidence-Based New Medical Technology Test of Change, Proof of Concept. Case Study Integrated Patient Monitoring.

• Presented by: Jean Ngoie
  
• Co-authors: Jean Ngoie, Gordon Craig, Scott Burden
• Affiliation: Scotland/UK 

COVID-19: the implementation of information system for the management of COVID RT-PCR test.

• Presented by: Valentina Manso
  
• Co-authors: Valentina Manso, Maria Bernadette Di Sciascio, Arturo Di Girolamo, Giuseppe Torzi
  
• Affiliation:  Local Health Service “Lanciano Vasto Chieti”, Italy

A web-based HTM system for Covid-19 crucial equipment.

• Presented by: Nicolas Pallikarakis
  
• Co-authors: Nicolas Pallikarakis, Aris Dermitzakis, Andreas Serafetinidis
• Affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Technology (INBIT), Greece

Supplying genuine devices in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic: fake certifications between scam and ignorance.

• Presented by: Stefano Bergamasco
  
• Co-authors: Stefano Bergamasco, Roberto Belliato, Ilaria Sirotich
  
• Affiliation: AIIC, MedTech Projects Srl, Italy

Central role of CE leveraging academia & industry collaboration for unmet clinical I service needs in Covid.

• Presented by: Frank Kirrane
  
• Co-authors: Frank Kirrane, Brendan Tuohy
  
• Affiliation: Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Galway University Hospital, Ireland
  

Covid-19 donation and equipment management in the Balkans.

• Presented by: Ledina Picari, Albania & Nexhdet Abazi
  
• Co-authors: Ledina Picari, Nexhdet Abazi
  
• Affiliation: Ministry of Health and Social Protection of Albania/ Smart Engineering LLC, Kosovo

Decisional model for wards reconfiguration in Covid19 emergency.

• Presented by: Alice Selva
  
• Co-authors: Alice Selva, Anna Squara, Piergiorgio Salerno, Luca Ferri, Giovanni Poggialini
  
• Affiliation: ASST dei Sette Laghi, Italy

COVID-19 Pandemic and medical device local manufacturing, regulatory challenges and opportunities: South Africa.

• Presented by: Baset Khalaf
  
• Co-authors: Abdelbaset Khalaf
  
• Affiliation: Durham College, Canada

The Cynefin Framework as a tool for organisational learning in a Covid-19 pandemic context.

• Presented by: Mladen Poluta
  
• Co-authors: Mladen Poluta
  
• Affiliation: Western Cape Dept. of Health, South Africa

IFMBE CED's global response to COVID19: Impacts on Quality, Safety and Outcomes.

• Presented by: Tom Judd
  
• Co-authors: Tom Judd
  
• Affiliation: USA

IFMBE CED's 2020 Unique CE Competency Webinars: Impacts on Recognition & Training.

• Presented by: Luis Fernandez & Tom Judd
  
• Co-authors: Tom Judd, Luis Fernandez, Kallirroi Stavrianou, Yadin B. David
  
• Affiliation: IFMBE CED, USA

Medical Device Regulation in Pakistan and comparison with India, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, USA, Japan and EU.

• Presented by: Tazeen Bukhari & Fiza Shaukat
  
• Co-authors: Tazeen Bukhari, Fiza Shaukat
  
• Affiliation: WHO Pakistan, Pakistan

Reaching Out to Russian-speaking HTM Professionals with CE Competency Webinars.

• Presented by: Andrei Issakov, MD
  
• Co-authors: Andrei Issakov
  
• Affiliation: Russia/Switzerland

International CED Footprint: Secretariat and Digital Platforms Manager Roles.

• Presented by: Kallirroi Stavrianou & Luis Fernandez
  
• Co-authors: Kallirroi Stavrianou, Luis Fernandez, Tom Judd
  
• Affiliation: IFMBE CED, UK

The Ingenuity of Clinical Engineers Maintaining Equipment With Limited Resources - Examples from Ghana.

• Presented by: Bill Gentles & John Zienaa
  
• Co-authors: Bill Gentles, John Zienaa, Kwabena Debrah, Clement Appiah
  
• Affiliation: BT Medical Technology Consulting, Canada

Nationwide Medical Equipment Inventory & Maintenance Practices in Nepal.

• Presented by: Barun Rauniyar
  
• Co-authors: Barun Kr. Rauniyar
  
• Affiliation: MEH Consultants, Nepal

HTM in Germany today, an overview. The good, the bad and how to deal with it.

• Presented by: Frank Rothe
  
• Co-authors: Frank Rothe
  
• Affiliation: VMSD, Germany

Building Global Capacity in Health Technology.

• Presented by: Logan Graham
  
• Co-authors: Logan Graham
  
• Affiliation: IFMBE CED, USA

MOSY: My Oxygen System.

• Presented by: Leslie Yessenia Cieza Huané
  
• Co-authors: Leslie Yessenia Cieza Huané, Julissa Elvira Venancio Huerta
  
• Affiliation: Biomedical Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, Peru

Hospital laboratory assessment of High Frequency Oscillatory neonatal ventilators performances.

• Presented by: Daniele Pietrobon
  
• Co-authors: Daniele Pietrobon, Simone De Santis, Federico Nocchi, Matteo Ritrovato, Carlo Capussotto, Andrea Dotta
  
• Affiliation: Clinical Engineering Unit, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Italy
  

Community Care Telehealth and Telemedicine Hubs for COVID-Patient Homecare.

• Presented by: Elliot Sloane
  
• Co-authors: Elliot Sloane, Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Vijay Gehlot
  
• Affiliation: Villanova University, USA

A 3D-printed condom intrauterine balloon tamponade for low-resource settings.

• Presented by: Leandro Pecchia
  
• Co-authors: Leandro Pecchia, Davide Piaggio, Scott Hyland
  
• Affiliation: School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

Ampadu Delivery Chairs.

• Presented by: Cecilia Ampadu
  
• Co-authors: Cecilia Ampadu, Emmanuel Srofenyoh, Joseph Adusei
  
• Affiliation: Ministry of Health/Ghana Health Service, Ghana
  

Repurposing open-source streaming software to provide on-line remote medical device training, teaching, and simulation.

• Presented by: Peter Conneely
  
• Co-authors: Peter Conneely, Frank Kirrane, Brendan Tuohy
  
• Affiliation: Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering, Galway University Hospital, Ireland
  

Variation in Electrical Impedances After Cochlear Implant Surgery.

• Presented by: Yassin Abdelsamad
  
• Co-authors: Yassin Abdelsamad
  
• Affiliation: MED-EL, Saudi Arabia

IHE & FHIR-Based Medical Device Interoperability.

• Presented by: Elliot Sloane
  
• Co-authors: Elliot Sloane, Todd Cooper, Ricardo Silva
  
• Affiliation: Villanova University, USA

What kind of VR video is BEST for reducing Pain: Quantification of emotion using Russell's circumplex model.

• Presented by: Takafumi Morisaki
  
• Co-authors: Takafumi Morisaki, Ryosuke Kasai
  
• Affiliation: Tokyo University of Technology, Japan

Design Implementation of a Sustainable Accurate Malaria Diagnostic at Primary Care Facilities for Developing Countries.

• Presented by: Eustache Muteba Ayumba, DRC
  
• Co-authors: Eustache Muteba Ayumba
  
• Affiliation: Correspondent of International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) in DR Congo

Lessons Learned during COVID-19 pandemic for improved emergency medical equipment procurement.

• Presented by: Claudio Meirovich
  
• Co-authors: Claudio Meirovich
  
• Affiliation: Spain

Generating additional device innovation and research opportunities during COVID 19 through a CE Innovation and Research Team.

• Presented by: Chris Hopkins
  
• Co-authors: Chris Hopkins, Leighton Phillips
  
• Affiliation: Hywel Dda University Health Board, UK
  

COVID-19 as an opportunity for HT in Africa.

• Presented by: Ashenafi Hussein
  
• Co-authors: Ashenafi Hussein
  
• Affiliation: ESBMET, Ethiopia

Clinical Engineering Involvement Facing Pandemic COVID-19.

• Presented by: Marcelo Marciano
  
• Co-authors: Marcelo Marciano
  
• Affiliation: Hospital Moinhos de Vento, Brazil

Clinical needs, technical requirements for COVID ventilators: evidence-based comparison for adult and pediatrics.

• Presented by: Martina Andellini
  
• Co-authors: Martina Andellini, Simone De Santis, Federico Nocchi, Elena Bassanelli, Francesco Faggiano, Leandro Pecchia, Matteo
  Ritrovato
  
• Affiliation: Health Technology Assessment Unit, Bambino Children’s Hospital, Italy / University of Warwick, UK
  

Affordable and open-source emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patient/ambulances settings.

• Presented by: Joseph Habiyaremye
  
• Co-authors: Joseph Habiyaremye, Costica Uwitonze
  
• Affiliation: IPRC Kicukiro, Rwanda

Optimization of the COVID19 Molecular Analysis Production Process.

• Presented by: Anna Squara
  
• Co-authors: Anna Squara, Alice Selva, Piergiorgio Salerno, Luca Ferri, Giovanni Poggialini
  
• Affiliation: ASST dei Sette Laghi, Italy

Biomechanical Compatibility of 3D Printed Upper Limb Assistive Technology.

• Presented by: Nuhu Abdulhaqq Isa
  
• Co-authors:Nuhu Abdulhaqq Isa
  
• Affiliation: Near East University, Cyprus

Technical Due Diligence Team Lessons establishing a national team to evaluate 'exotic' ventilators & infusion devices at the peak of COVID-19.

• Presented by: Dan Clark
  
• Co-authors: Dan Clark
  
• Affiliation: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK