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The main building of the University of Minnesota Medical Center was established in 1997 through a merger with University Hospitals and Clinics and Fairview Health Services.  It has approximately 1300 beds.

Standards Minnesota

Kahn Health Care Pavilion

Our tenure in the 2026 National Electrical Code will result in at least a 10 percent reduction in the cost of building premise wiring — (mostly in the feeder power chain) — in healthcare facilities; based on the results of last month’s meeting of Code Making Panel 15.

Assuming electrical power infrastructure is 15 percent of in a $920 million facility like this (excluding interior moveable fixtures), that would have meant an approximate $14 million reduction in cost.  That cost savings cannot be realized because it was designed to an earlier version of the National Electrical Code.

Facilities and Operations

National Electrical Code CMP-15

Healthcare Facilities Code

Hospital Plug Load


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New University of Michigan hospital to be named after philanthropists D. Dan and Betty Kahn

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$920M Michigan Medicine tower tops out, targets 2025 opening

 

Health 300

Today we break down regulations, codes, standards and open-source literature governing the safety and sustainability of university-affiliated medical research and healthcare delivery facilities.   In large measure, the safety and sustainability agenda of the university-affiliated healthcare system infrastructure coincides with the private sector.   Accordingly, we confine our interest to systems — water, power, telecommunication and security; for example — that are unique to campus-configured, city-within-city risk aggregations.

We usually start with a scan of the following titles:

International Building Code (with particular interest in Section 308 Institutional Group I)

K-TAG Matrix for Healthcare Facilities

NFPA 70 National Electrical Code Article 517

NFPA 99 Healthcare Facilities Code

NFPA 101 Life Safety Code Chapters 18 & 19

ASHRAE 170 Ventilation of Healthcare Facilities

ASHRAE 189.3: Design, Construction and Operation of Sustainable High Performance Health Care Facilities

Some of the content in the foregoing links need weekly refresh.  We’ll get to that, time permitting.

Starting 2023 we break down our coverage of standards thus:

Health 200 Clinical delivery

Health 400 Research

We will thumb through the titles published by HL7 and NSF International — both Ann Arbor-based organizations.  A surprising number of medical data companies are domiciled in Ann Arbor; not far from our own offices on State Street.   We will also see if any bills and resolutions introduced into the 117th Congress will make into public law.

Finally, we collaborate with the IEEE E&H Committee on the following IEC committee projects from IEC/TC 62 Electrical equipment in medical practice.

– Common aspects of electrical equipment used in medical practice

– Diagnostic imaging equipment

– Equipment for radiotherapy, nuclear medicine and radiation dosimetry

– Electromedical equipment

 

As covered in previous posts, the original University of Michigan standards enterprise was one of the founding members of what has become ISO/TC 304 Healthcare organization management — following the lead set by Lee Webster at the University of Texas Medical Branch.  Since last month’s colloquium ISO TC/304 there has been a fair measure of the usual back-and-forth that we will cover in today’s colloquium.  We will examine the ideas in play in the links below today and try to organize them ahead of balloting:

ISO/TC 304 Catalog status

Legacy Workspace  (N.B. We are still in the process of uploading content onto the new University of Michigan Google Site facility)

Open to everyone.  Use the login credentials at the upper right of our home page.


Standing Agenda / Healthcare Facilities Monthly

More

Journal of Healthcare Management Standards: Operational Resilience of Hospital Power Systems in the Digital Age

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

Health care cost as percentage of Gross Domestic Product for six representative nations.

Association of Academic Health Centers

International Conference on Harmonization: The ICH guidelines provide guidance on the development of pharmaceuticals and related substances, including clinical trials, drug safety, and efficacy.

Animal Welfare Act and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee

Good Laboratory Practice: GLP is a set of principles that ensure the quality and integrity of non-clinical laboratory studies. It ensures that data generated from non-clinical laboratory studies are reliable, valid, and accurate.

International Code Council Representation of Interests

Drinking Water Quality

Human Anatomy Learning Platform for Medical Students

 

Evianita Dewi Fajrianti

Sritrusta Sukaridhoto – Muhammad Udin Harun Al Rasyid – Rizqi Putri Nourma Budiarti

Ilham Achmad Al Hafidz – Naufal Adi Satrio – Ardiman Firmanda

 

Department of Electrical Engineering, Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya, Indonesia

 

Abstract:   Augmented Intelligence technology was introduced for the task of helping improve human work in various fields, one of which is education. Several problems in the learning process, which are currently completely virtual, raise new problems, especially related to practicums which require teaching modules as guidelines for practicum implementation but still maintain the impression of interactive learning. For this reason, Augmented Reality technology is applied as a solution to build a practical human anatomy module, then called AIVE Platform embedded in smartphones to provide informative and immersive learning that can be run indoors or outdoors so that it is not limited by space and time. This platform can run on Android and iOS which is built on the AR Foundation framework to work across platforms. This module has followed the rules of the anatomical atlas that include labels on each part, there is also a login system to store student usage history, as well as the choice of learning mode. This module has been licensed to operate from a teaching doctor in anatomy to be used as a teaching module. The PIECES framework used to analyze the importance and satisfaction level of the platform gives score 4.085 out of 5 on and 4.081 out of 5 respectively.

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Electromagnetic Interference in the Intensive Care Units of a University Hospital

 

Electromagnetic Interference in Hospital Environment:

Case Study of the Intensive Care Units of a University Hospital

Victoria Souza Fernandes

Raquel Aline A. R. Felix – Agatha Eyshilla Da Paz Correia – Alexandre Henrique de Oliveira

Federal University of Campina Grande, Campina Grande, Brazil

 

Abstract:  Electromagnetic (EM) sources are abundant in the routine of a hospital. Such sources can be for personal use, be part of the set of electromedical equipment or the building structure. This article presents the verification of electromagnetic interference between field sources and hospital devices, since electromagnetic interference is a factor that puts the correct functioning of these equipments at risk. As a consequence, patient’s lives are also put at risk. Since in many cases, the vitality of the patient depends exclusively on medical devices, electromagnetic fields were measured inside and outside the intensive care units (ICUs) of the University Hospital Alcides Carneiro (UHAC) with all hospital devices working normally. The electromagnetic field values obtained at the hospital were compared with the values imposed by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

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