Exploring medical device management strategies

The recent EBME Seminar explored some of the challenges facing the electro-biomedical engineering profession – including ensuring patient safety through effective medical device management, while delivering efficiency and productivity gains. Louise Frampton reports.

The EBME Seminar is an independent educational event bringing together healthcare professionals that are responsible for the management of medical equipment – including procurement, maintenance, user training and managing inventories. Taking place at the Milton Keynes DoubleTree Hilton, alongside the stadium of the MK Dons, the event was attended by over 300 delegates.

In his opening presentation, EBME Seminar chair, Dr John Sandham, focused on ‘Technology as an enabler for productivity in the NHS’, highlighting the role of connected technology in facilitating cost-efficient models of care, such as ‘step down care’ – an interim step that bridges the gap between hospital discharge and returning home, which has been adopted in Scandinavia.