VisionFM, ECRI to facilitate device safety alert, recall communication

Vision Facilities Management has started a new two-way communication interface with ECRI Institute to improve the ability of hospital staff to manage medical device safety alerts and recalls.

Plymouth Meeting, Pa.-based ECRI Institute's Universal Medical Device Nomenclature System (UMDNS), a vocabulary and coding system, and Health Devices International Sourcebase, an online medical device database, are both being integrated into Toronto-based VisionFM’s VisionFM +HEALTHCARE, to align inventory control with device safety alerts, VisionFM stated.

VisionFM +HEALTHCARE offers academic and large community hospital medical equipment inventory control, as well as responses to medical device safety alerts and recalls. Being integrated with ECRI Institute allows healthcare facilities to access medical device and manufacturer codes directly within VisionFM +HEALTHCARE, according to VisionFM.

The interface of ECRI Institute's Alerts Tracker, a web-based hazard and recall alert management system and VisionFM +HEALTHCARE will assist to determine whether equipment involved in a hazard and recall alert is currently in an inventory, and also stores the status of work orders issued in VisionFM +HEALTHCARE in the user's Alerts Tracker database at ECRI, the company stated.