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By Insight Editor / 5 Jun 2018
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A HIMSS Media survey of 214 clinical and IT respondents at provider organizations reveals that current perceptions and practices may be at odds with the goals of reducing the rate of healthcare-associated infections, ensuring electromagnetic compatibility and safety, and securing patient information.
43% of clinicians reported their organizations don’t have any published guidelines for sanitizing technology products like PCs and keyboards — that number jumps to 60% for respondents at hospitals with <100 beds.
With the close proximity of consumer-grade technology to patients and medical devices, healthcare organizations need to ensure electromagnetic compatibility and safety.
The additional testing that IEC’s 60601-1-2:2015 requires will reduce the risk of electromagnetic interference, or electrical shock/fire hazards.
When IT is highly involved in purchasing products to improve and manage sanitization practice of clinical care… The number of organizations with published guidelines grows to 76%.
And the percent who feel that patients are at risk of getting sick from improperly sanitized equipment drops from 43% to 29%.
Yet 82% of respondents report that their IT teams have limited or no involvement in these purchase decisions.
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