ROYAL OAK, Mich., July 10 /PRNewswire/ -- The Beaumont Technology Usability Center (BTUC) is testing an online training program for GE Healthcare’s Aisys Carestation, a machine that monitors the amount of gas mixture and anesthetic agent being delivered to patients. The Center is also testing a program for GE Healthcare’s Corometrics 250 Series Fetal Heart Monitors. The finalized training programs will be offered to facilities already using the machines and to those who make future purchases.
BTUC services will provide GE Healthcare with a significant return on investment, a reduction in total product development time by minimizing rework costs and an increase in customer satisfaction by ensuring customer-centered end products. By completing a well-designed online training program before in- service, user retention can be improved and there is faster familiarity with the machines, leading to fewer in-services.
“We understand that healthcare employees don’t have a lot of time so part of our goal was to increase productivity while enabling them to provide superior patient care,” said Beth Bogan, Manager of the Education Development Team for GE Healthcare. “With our advancements in technology, I engaged BTUC to validate our design of e-learning programs and help us embark on further development initiatives that effectively meet our learner’s needs.”
Upon completing the online training program for the Aisys Carestation, most of the testers said they could envision themselves referencing the tool before in-servicing to come up with questions and after in-servicing to refresh their memory. Testers even reported that they would be able to use the machine based on what they learned from the computer-based training.
“This is the third project in which we have partnered with GE Healthcare to improve the safety and ease of use of medical technologies,” said Steve Ebben, Vice President of Planning & Marketing for BTUC. “Evaluating these learning modules presents one more service that BTUC has to offer as the Center expands and our team continues to make improvements in healthcare technology.”
About The Beaumont Technology Usability Center (BTUC) BTUC’s mission is to advance excellence in healthcare by improving medical technology and its use. The Center provides medical device and equipment manufacturers with product development services that improve patient safety, minimize the cost of product development and shorten the time-to-market. The BTUC is a multidisciplinary team of health care experts affiliated with Beaumont Hospitals. Beaumont is comprised of two hospitals - including a 1,061-bed tertiary care, teaching, research and referral center in Royal Oak, MI and a 254-bed acute care community teaching hospital in Troy, MI. Beaumont also includes six community-based medical centers; rehabilitation, primary and specialty care clinics; four nursing centers; home care and hospice. For more information, see www.beaumontusability.com.
About GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies and services that are shaping a new age of patient care. Their expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, performance improvement, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform, treat and monitor disease, so patients can live their lives to the fullest.
GE Healthcare’s broad range of products and services enable healthcare providers to better diagnose and treat cancer, heart disease, neurological diseases and other conditions earlier. Their vision for the future is to enable a new “early health” model of care focused on earlier diagnosis, pre- symptomatic disease detection and disease prevention. Headquartered in the United Kingdom, GE Healthcare is a $17 billion unit of General Electric Company . Worldwide, GE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people committed to serving healthcare professionals and their patients in more than 100 countries. For more information about GE Healthcare, visit their website at www.GEhealthcare.com.
Steve Ebben steve.ebben@beaumontservices.com
The Beaumont Technology Usability Center
CONTACT: Steve Ebben steve.ebben@beaumontservices.com
