JEDI - an executive dashboard and decision support system for lean global military medical resource and logistics management.

Each individual U.S. Air Force, Army, and Navy Surgeon General has integrated oversight of global medical supplies and resources using the Joint Medical Asset Repository (JMAR).

Clinical engineering department strategic graphical dashboard to enhance maintenance planning and asset management.

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Technology's implications for health care quality. A clinical engineering perspective.

Bill Gates states in Business @ The Speed of Thought that "the 2000s will be about velocity." This "decade of velocity" is driven by the flow of digital information. Health care organizations should develop a "digital nervous system" that is distinguished from a network of computers by the accuracy, immediacy, and richness of the information it brings to health care workers and by the insight and collaboration made possible by this information.

Knowledge management system for benchmarking performance indicators using statistical process control (SPC) and Virtual Instrumentation (VI).

Healthcare is ever changing environment and with the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Hospital Organization (JCAHO) emphasis on quality improvement during the past several years, and the cost-focused healthcare reforms of the 1990s, benchmarking with peer comparison, and more recently benchmarking against competitors, has taken on a new emphasis. All acute healthcare organizations accredited by JCAHO now require participation in a program titled ORYX, which is designed to use comparisons with other organizations and promote national benchmarks. The knowledge management system designed assists clinical engineering department to convert vast amounts of available data into information, which is ultimately transformed into knowledge to enable better decision-making.

Virtual instrumentation and real-time executive dashboards. Solutions for health care systems.

Successful organizations have the ability to measure and act on key indicators and events in real time. By leveraging the power of virtual instrumentation and open architecture standards, multidimensional executive dashboards can empower health care organizations to make better and faster data-driven decisions. This article will highlight how user-defined virtual instruments and dashboards can connect to hospital information systems (e.

Vibrotactile stimulation system to treat apnea of prematurity.

We modified a system that uses vibrotactile stimulation (VTS) to treat apnea (a cessation of respiration) in neonates in order to make the system more portable and easier to use by clinicians and nurses. The biomedical engineering department at Hartford Hospital (Hartford, CT) together with the Neonatology Division at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) (Hartford, CT) has been involved in developing the VTS system. Clinical trails were conducted in the neonatal intensive care unit of CCMC, and further preliminary data were collected.