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2011 National Clinical Alarms Survey Results Available
An overwhelming national response to the Healthcare Technology Foundation’s survey resulted in 4278 responders – 93% clinical staff – voicing their perceptions, issues, improvements and priorities about this highly visible, complex patient safety concern. The overall results and recommendations were distributed to the 298 attendees at the AAMI Medical Device Alarms Summit on October 4, 2011 in Herndon, VA to provide a foundational consensus statement from clinical staff. The summit was convened jointly by AAMI, the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), the FDA, the ECRI Institute, and The Joint Commission. HTF was a supporting organization for the summit.

The survey was a project of HTF sponsored by AAMI, the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), and Philips Healthcare. A PDF of survey results is available at the link below.

2011 National Clinical Alarms Survey (.pdf, 2.7Mb)

Additional publications will be developed focusing on demographic analyses and review of the 3132 free form comments.

The Healthcare Technology Foundation was founded in 2002 on the principle that achieving improvement in the safe use of healthcare technology requires diverse stakeholders to come together in order to utilize their collective knowledge on the design, use, integration and servicing of healthcare technology, systems and devices. In addition to industry, regulators, clinicians and clinical engineers, the public must be included as one of the stakeholders such that they are provided with the means to participate in and gain access to guidance on best practices and the safe use of healthcare technology both in clinical settings and at home.

The mission of HTF is to:

"Improve healthcare delivery outcomes by promoting the development, application and support of safe and effective healthcare technologies."

The Foundation supports:

  • The promotion of excellence in clinical engineering leadership through research, education and certification
  • Funding of related research and programs,
  • Effective collaborations between medical device producers, regulators, users and clinical engineers,
  • The creation of safety-related education material that is useful to members of the public

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Executive Leadership includes Tobey Clark, President, Hank Stankiewicz, Vice President, Jennifer Ott, Secretary, Henry Montenegro, Treasurer, Dr. William Hyman, Immediate President, and Yadin David, EdD, President Emeritus.

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