Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering Society

The Health Association Nova Scotia (HANS) Clinical Engineering Service is pleased to announce we are now able to offer our Lift Load Mark III and accessories for sale to other CE groups. We have been developing the product for more than 3 years, in conjunction with Stantec Engineering and Quality Machining, and it is now a mature and professional platform and warrantied for a full year from time of delivery. We have 5 of these in service with our teams and have just shipped our first system and accessories to the Regina General Hospital.

ACCES was profiled in the October 2012 edition of TechNation with circulation of ~25,000.  This profile article provides a good overview of our organization. TechNation is a US publication dedicated to Biomedical Engineering. It is a informative Biomed Publication with both a hardcopy and an online version of the magazine available.

Click here to see the Article on the techNation website.

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 ACCES members can download a copy here. (443.91 kB)

The ACCES executive has been working with members to provide support for Clinical Engineering Week activities. Whether your planning cake in the cafeteria at breaks, contests, or lobby displays we hope the tools described in this article are helpful!

These free banners posters and Quiz and available via download service. You do not need to be a member of ACCES or have an account on this website however, you will need to provide your name and a valid Email address. Members of ACCES that are logged into the website can directly download these materials by clicking here.

Congratulations go to the Clinical Engineering Week 2012 contest winners;

1. Western Health Biomedical Engineering – Newfoundland
2. Region 6 Facilicorp Biomedical Engineering – New Brunswick
3. Central Region HANS Clinical Engineering – Nova Scotia
4. Northern Region HANS Clinical Engineering – Nova Scotia

We had several teams submit more than one picture, same poster some of the same people at different locations. While we applaud the effort and appreciate the additional pictures the judges decided in all fairness these should be considered one entry. In this way every team that participated got a prize, what could be more fair then that!

Each department will receive a $200 dollar cheque From ACCES In January of 2013 to be used for next year’s Clinical Engineering Week activities. Many thanks to those that participated. It is nice to see CE professionals proudly displaying their many contributions to healthcare and their achievements!

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Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week has taken place May 21-25 2012. To help our members and other Biomed departments promote this week ACCES devolped a free standing posters, and other materials.

You can still access these materials by clicking here.

ACCES also ran a contest that was opento departments in Atlantic Canada. To enter the contest, departments sent us pictures with thier team beside a banner (encluding names!) suitable for publication on our website.  The teams will be entered in a random draw for one of six prizes of $200. The $200 prizes will be sent to lucky winners in January of 2013 to help you fund and promote CE week next year!

The contest is now closed to any further entries.

Pictures submitted are shown below. If you do your math, you will see the chances of winning are very good, and involves littlerandomness. 

Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week has taken place May 21-25 2013. To help our members and other Biomed departments promote this week ACCES devolped a free standing posters, and other materials.

You can still access these materials by clicking here.

To help prompt Clinical Engineering week ACCES ran a contest that was open to any group in Atlantic that used the free standing ACCES created banner during CE week. To enter the contest required a submission of a picture of your team beside the banner and thier names.

Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week has taken place May 21-25 2012. To help our members and other Biomed departments promote this week ACCES devolped a free standing posters, and other materials.

You can still You can still access these materials by clicking here.

Health Technology Management, a new moniker for Biomedical and Clinical Engineering departments.

Admittedly, when I first ran across this acronym my thoughts where, “Great just what this field needs, another name”. If not being able to decide if we where Biomedical Departments or Clinical Engineering Departments wasn’t bad enough lets start calling our field something altogether different.

After attended a recent AAMI sponsored webinar HTM Leadership. I had to rethink the whole subject.

AAMI’s Technology Management Council (TMC) sponsers the National HTM (Health Technology Management) Week.

This AAMI webpage list some resources for Health Technology Management Week

AAMI stands for Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation, and is dedicated to advancing safety in medical technology.

HTM (Health Technology Management) is a new name being adopted by many progressive Biomed/Clinical Engineering Departments see this article for more information.

The cornerstone for ACCES was laid in November of 2006. We began with a meeting of interested CE professionals hosted in Moncton. This visionary group became the foundation team which launched regional discussions in 2006. These conversations evolved and grew through 2007. The 2008 spring conference in Newfoundland was followed by our incorporation as the Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering Society in the late summer of 2008.

It’s official! ACCES17 / CMBES35 Joint Conference 2012 will take place in Halifax from June 19th to the 22nd. This will be a joint conference with the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society and Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering Society held at the Westin Hotel near Pier 21.

The Atlantic Canada Clinical Engineering Society (ACCES) officially came to exist in April 2008. 

As ACCES’s first president I am pleased to have the opportunity to recognize the efforts of the many volunteers who worked behind the scenes for those first 18 months before our official launch. Without their support and vision this would not have been possible.  I would especially like to thank the team in Moncton, and particularly Paul Auffrey for his dedication and determination which launched and continually delivered the Moncton Biomedical Conference for more than a decade.

The staff at Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital celebrated Biomed May 22nd to 28th.

As part of Biomed they set up a the following display outside the Cafeteria.

Special Thanks to Mike Smith and Zandra Rubinger.

A Great Success

The first ever national Clinical Engineering week was announced by the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES) this past winter. The week is intended to recognize the biomedical engineering technologists, technicians, clinical engineers and other medical technology professional that uniquely serve Canadian healthcare and patients. The inaugural week dates, March 1-8, were chosen to coincide with National Engineering week.