Hello, and welcome to the August issue of the CMS Imaging
newsletter. The CMS Imaging Team is praying for the safety of all those in the path of Hurricane
Laura. We also want to thank all of you reading this for all that you do in supporting your
communities.
Be Like the Blue Angels
A new blog post on Emergency Preparedness
As Labor Day approaches and we all wish for a
simpler time of beach trips, one of the things that I will miss the most this upcoming Labor
Day weekend is the Blue Angels. My wife's family, a proud Air Force family, would remind me
it is the Thunderbirds, not the Blue Angels, of which I should be writing. I grew up in
Brooklyn, New York, and one of the highlights of the long weekend was always the Blue Angels
flying over Coney Island Beach. It was always cool as a child to see something move so fast,
make so much noise, and fly so close to each other without colliding. It wasn't until I was
older that I realized that the precision flying was due to many hours of practice and each
pilot knowing what their exact role was in the formation.
The Blue Angels and
Thunderbirds spend many hours practicing for their shows, but what most of us don't think
about are the countless hours spent rehearsing what to do in the case of an emergency. Each
pilot rehearses emergency procedures exhaustively so that their actions are second nature in
the event of an emergency. While some of you are inevitably pilots, we can all practice like
flyers on how to conduct ourselves in the case of emergency.
Hybrid Surgical Suite
Shimadzu unity Edition Trinias C16
Spartanburg Regional Hospital in Spartanburg, South
Carolina recently installed a Shimadzu Trinias C16 as part of a hybrid surgical suite. The
Trinias shares the space with full ER suite allowing surgeons to use use the Trinias and then
switch to the operating table without leaving the surgical suite.
CyPHIPrepare
CyPhiPrepare's management tool helps you Track,
test, and Facilitate your Certification for Emergency Preparedness. Applies to all 17 Center
for Medicare and Medicaid Services-designated Medicare and Medicaid Providers and Suppliers,
keeping you compliant with CMS's November 15, 2017 compliance date.
Epica SeeFactor CT3
SeeFactor CT3 can reside in an imaging room or be
easily moved to the patient in almost any care environment. ICU or ER Trauma patients are at
higher risk during movement to an outside imaging room. Time and other facility resources
are unnecessarily consumed by moving a high-risk patient to a dedicated imaging room.