From the March 2014 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine


Currently, there aren’t any national training requirements for the system, but professional societies are starting to work toward one. The American Urological Association is brainstorming and putting together a guideline for a standardized training and credentialing program for surgical staff, says ECRI’s Schabowsky.

But this doesn’t mean that the problem will disappear. “These are guidelines, they aren’t often incorporated into any requirement for a hospital to follow them, so it’s good practice to follow any professional society’s guidance, but again, there is often very little requirement to do so,” says ECRI’s Maliff.


Despite any challenges, experts believe that robots and other high-tech devices will continue to be the future of the operating room.

“I think the operating room is going through a lot of transformation and will continue to go through a lot of transformation in the next couple of years,” says GE Healthcare’s Abate. “We see more and more with new devices, new imaging technologies, we see that the number of procedures moving from open to minimally invasive is growing and so the equipment contributes to that, they’re really the transformation of the OR going forward.”

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DOTmed Registered HCBN March 2014 O/R Suite Companies

Names in boldface are Premium Listings.
Domestic
Kristopher Derentz, Multi Imager Surgical, CA
Tom Tottleben, TSC, Inc, IL
Robert Harris, Imaging Associates Inc., NC
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Adam Rudinger, Lex-Tech, Inc., NY
DOTmed Certified
DOTmed 100
Robert Dewey, Siemens Healthcare, PA

International
Zaka Khaliq, Surtex Instruments, United Kingdom
Luis Campos, Inversiones CFM, El Salvador
Ashish Bhavsar, Wave Visions, India
Chaudhry Zahid Hussain, D.H. Enterprises, Pakistan

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