Update on AAMI Foundation Activities Marilyn Neder Flack

Update on AAMI Foundation Activities Marilyn Neder Flack AAMI Foundation REMEDI Conference April 19 - 21 2017

Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) Ø Non Profit – 50 year anniversary this year! Ø 7000 individual members or • representatives of: – hospital, industry, government, – R&D, QA/RA professionals, engineers, – doctors, nurses, technicians, students, – academic and government researchers, – and consultant experts Ø Over 300 corporate and institutional members Ø FDA is “sustaining” member

AAMI Foundation The non-profit Foundation engages the healthcare community in national initiatives to solve healthcare technology issues that are: • complex • multidisciplinary • require an integrated systems approach Philosophy: Representatives from all stakeholder groups must be involved in solution strategies

AAMI Foundation • Awards • Scholarships One of the awards is: The Clinical Solutions Award Guess who won it this year? ? !!

REMEDI!! Chosen as the 2017 recipient of the AAMI Foundation & Institute for Technology in Health Care’s Clinical Solution Award. Congratulations, REMEDI, on this outstanding achievement!

Current Initiatives National Coalition for Alarm-Management Safety (Launched April 2014) National Coalition to Promote Continuous Monitoring of Patients on Opioids (Launched November 2014) The National Coalition for Infusion-Therapy Safety (Launched March, 2015) National Coalition to Promote the Safe Use of Complex Technology

National Coalition for Infusion Therapy Safety • Four Teams Producing “Quick Guides” – Providing senior leadership information they need to support and foster infusion therapy safety (Rich Zink, lead) – Multiple line safety (Sonia Pinkney, lead) – Infusion-pump alarm management (Rachel Vitoux, lead) – Drug-library management (Rich Zink, lead)

Optimizing Patient Outcomes: Questions Senior Hospital Leaders Should Ask About Infusion Therapy Safety Why? Best Practices; How to Measure • Are we adopting a systems approach to infusion therapy safety? • Are we optimizing the management of our drug libraries? • Are we providing adequate funding, time, training, and resources to enable staff to improve infusion safety? • Are we effectively managing our infusion pump alarms? • Are we optimizing multiple-line infusion therapy safety?

Improving Safe Use of Multiple IV Infusions Quick Guide This Quick Guide covers the recommendations developed by Human. Era (not designed to reflect all the great work issued by the Joint Commission, INS, ISMP, or ASHP…and others). Human. Era… a research group in Canada which has studied these issues for several years. 1. Identifying an IV infusion 2. Setting up and programming multiple continuous IV infusions 3. Managing shared infusion volume 4. Setting up secondary intermittent IV infusions 5. Administering IV pump boluses

Collaborating Partners

How to Obtain the Guides. . and the Other Coalition Deliverables aami. org/thefoundation Click on the infusion activities: guides; patient safety seminars; and papers