International Committee

The International Committee (IC) held its fifth 2021 regular bimonthly meeting on September 13, 2021. At this meeting we welcomed the addition of Dr. Abdelbaset (Baset) Khalaf to IC as the replacement for Jennifer Jackson, who resigned due to heavy workload at her job.

Dr. Khalaf was born in Palestine, lived for many years in South Africa and is currently teaching in Canada. He has worked in clinical engineering in Palestine and served as the Deputy Director of Health Technology Policy for the Department of Health of South African. There he also taught at the Tshwane University of Technology before transferring to Durham College in Canada, where he is a Professor of Health Care Technology Management. He has earned a BSc-EE from the Middle East Technical University, Turkey, a MTECH and DTECH from the Tshwane University of Technology, and a PhD-EE from the Université De Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, France.

At this meeting, IC members discussed the progress made in establishing collaboration and mutual assistance agreements with foreign associations. One of them, with the Association Françaises des Ingénieurs Biomédicaux (AFIB), has been submitted for review to and approved by the ACCE Board. Others agreements being explored include the associations of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, and Ireland. nars being offered also has been augmented with new subjects and is available on ACCE’s website: https:// accenet.org/International/Pages/ Webinars.aspx.

Due to the prevalence of the COVID -19 pandemic in most countries, it is anticipated that these webinars will continue to be the primary means of collaboration between ACCE and the foreign associations with which ACCE has established collaboration and mutual assistance agreements. ACCE members who are not IC members are welcome to consider offering webinars they believe are of potential interest to our foreign colleagues. Interested persons should contact one of the IC members (see list on https://accenet.org/ International/Pages/Default.aspx) and provide a short description similar to what is available on the ACCE webpage. Potential presenters are reminded that such activities are strictly voluntary and does not involve any honorarium.

IC members also discussed the webinars that are being offered to our collaborating associations. A webinar entitled “Clinical Engineering – An Overview and Future Perspectives,” was delivered by Binseng Wang & Julio Huerta to the Associación Colegio de Ingeniería Biomédica de El Salvador (ACIBES) on July 29, 2021. Another one, entitled “Medical Equipment Planning - An Overview of the Process” will be delivered by Avinash Konkani to The Clinical Engineering Association of South Africa (CEASA) on Oct. 19, 2021. A few additional ones are also being arranged. The list of webi-

Binseng Wang, IC Chair

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“Our Apprenticeship Program continues to grow with the support of these incredible organizations,” said McGeary. “I’m excited to see even more companies join our growing list of employer partners paving the way for the next generation of exceptional BMETs!”

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the chair of the IEEE 11073 Standards Committee for medical device communication, he co-chairs the AAMI MP working group for multi-parameter patient monitors and is involved in a number of other standards development efforts in ISO, IHE, HL7 and AAMI.

Ken’s background has been focused on networking, connectivity and system architectures at various point of care medical devices companies including Draeger Medical Systems, Siemens Medical Solutions, Mindray Medical and the non-profit Center for Medical Interoperability.

At HIMSS, Fuchs has been involved with the HIMSS Interoperability Showcase since 2005. when the first Patient Care Device demonstration was held. He was a member of the IHE USA Board of Directors as well as a PCD co-chair for a number of years. He has volunteered at the Interoperability Showcase in the past as well as for HIMSS20.

“Ken has been very involved in the CEIT Community since its inception. His vision and leadership have helped define the scope of direction for PCD (Patient Care Device Domain) where he has been a leader from its very beginning. He has a great passion to collaborate across disciplines and to educate users’ community in order to provide much clarity for the complex architecture of network of systems and its dependence on standards to achieve and deliver safe true interoperability. Ken is well respected in the CE-IT Community; he has delivered a multitude of presentations and training workshops and has served on many committees in order to help deliver safe and effective patient care through technology. Ken is the true embodiment of CE-IT Synergies and we are extremely pleased he was awarded this Award”, said Ilir Kullolli, President of ACCE.