CLINICAL ENGINEERING BENCHMARKING

NESCE Invites You to Attend Our First Meeting of 2010

On Thursday, January 28, 2010,  Frank Painter will present on the subject of clinical engineering benchmarking and will review the specific features and functions of AAMI's Benchmarking Solution.  This is AAMI's new online tool that is designed to help clinical engineering departments measure their practices, policies, and procedures against similar departments at other facilities, monitor their progress throughout the year, and share best practices.

Frank will provide details on the workings of AAMI's benchmarking resource and will demonstrate the beneficial data that can be obtained from this tool.  He will highlight the benefits it can provide to your clinical engineering department.  He will provide a quick demonstration of the online system and answer any questions.

Time / Location

East Side Restaurant 131 Dwight Street
New Britain, CT 06051 www.eastsiderestaurant.com

5:30-6:00pm - Social gathering with cash bar and cheese/crackers/fruit

6:00-7:00pm - Dinner

7:00-7:30pm - NESCE Business Meeting

7:30-8:30pm - Presentation by Frank Painter

About Our Speaker

Frank Painter is a healthcare technology consultant who specializes in the areas of service management, healthcare technology, risk management and accident investigation as well as medical equipment service. He is the Clinical Engineering Program Director and a faculty member in the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Connecticut.

Frank has directed clinical engineering departments at two large metropolitan university teaching hospitals and managed two successful regional medical equipment service organizations. He is an expert on healthcare equipment and the medical devices found in hospitals. He has presented papers on risk management, quality improvement, human factors, technology assessment and technology management, both nationally and internationally. He is actively involved in the profession, having been President of the American College of Clinical Engineering, Chairman of the US Board of Examiners for Clinical Engineering Certification and Chairman of the Healthcare Technology Certification Commission.

Meeting & RSVP Information

NESCE is generously sponsoring most of the cost for this dinner meeting. The cost to NESCE members will be only $10 ($5 for students).  Payment will be taken at the door. When you arrive at the restaurant, you will be asked for your dinner selection (choice of 7 dinner items from their German Banquet Menu, which includes soup, an appetizer, entree and dessert). There will be cheese/crackers/fruit and a cash bar (please remember to tip your bar server). The restaurant requires a meal count, so you must RSVP by Tuesday 1/26/10 by selecting "Yes" in the "Your Response" box located on this Invite.

(Important: All RSVPs are paid for whether or not you show up, so if you RSVP "Yes" but then cannot attend, we completely understand.  But, you must change your RSVP to "No" by 1/26/10 so we can delete your dinner from the count, or we will pay for it.)

We Look Forward To

Seeing You In January!!

Sincerely,

Your NESCE Board Members

Questions? Please email p.bachman@yahoo.com or 203.767.0432.