CED Hacking COVID-19 Daily Update March-30

Update #257 - March 30 2021
One Year Anniversary

Our Hacking Coronavirus / Hacking COVID-19 weekday eBulletin has just reached the first anniversary.

A year ago, a group of us decided to try assembling useful Clinical Engineering and C-Suite resources for you, our global community. Today, our weekday eBulletins reach +10,000 subscribers, providing all of you as many articles about clinical technology, policy, and practice as we can locate in the peer-reviewed literature. Fortunately, most publishers have eliminated their paywalls, allowing all of us to freely share cutting-edge information as it is published.

This terrible pandemic has lasted FAR longer than any of us imagined, so, let's be honest, this is a bittersweet anniversary. We have lost so many friends, colleagues, and family to this dreadful scourge, and the global economy will take a lot of hard work to restore.

Your Hacking Coronavirus team truly hopes that we can sunset this daily publication later this year as we all work together to eliminate SARS-Cov2 everywhere on the planet. Until then, we will continue to do our best to support you.

Thank you all for YOUR hard work each and every day to serve your -- and our -- community.

HCU Team

Together we can make it better!
The editorial team encourages Clinical Engineers to submit their experiences and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic to this newsletter by sending a paper, video or photograph to info@ced.ifmbe.org

COVID-19 Relevant Resources
Here are some resources you might find helpful. As always, your professional judgement and regulatory compliance should be incorporated:

Extensive Valuable CE+COVID-19 Related Content Here

Clinical Engineering at the Forefront

Here are some images/videos we've gathered from Social Media Channels that include our great heroes working hard every day!

Ministry of Health of Peru-MoH appointed 22 health professionals among doctors, nurses and health technologists to strengthen Arequipa’s Covid-19 response, Arequipa region of Peru. February, 2021

These images/videos do not belong to the IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division. Please click on the image to go to its original source.

C-Suite Perspectives

See our Extensive C-Suite Perspectives Library Here

International Relevant & COVID-19 Repositories

See our Extensive International COVID-19 Repository Library Here

This update will be also distributed through the Hacking Coronavirus social media platforms, you can follow us and contribute using the following channels:
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

Repository for all prior Hacking Coronavirus Updates

WHO, UN Foundation and partners launch first-of-its-kind COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

The fund launches with major support already lined up, including from Facebook and Google who have instituted a matching scheme for funds raised through their platforms, while individual donors are also supporting the fund through www.COVID19ResponseFund.org.

See full information here.

Companies wishing to donate supplies to WHO as part of the COVID-19 emergency response are requested to complete the below form

WHO Donations of in-kind critical items

PAHO Response & Request for Donations
PAHO has launched an Appeal to donors & partners to scale-up the capacity of the countries of the Americas to respond to COVID-19. The response strategy outlined in this Appeal has two main objectives: slow down the transmission of the virus and mitigate the health impact of COVID-19 in the Region.

S ee full information here

Proud Recognition and Thanks to our Colleagues!

Very important that our community of medical device servicers -- around the globe -- receive recognition and support for their hard work.

Like the men and women who keep our military fleet of fighters, ships, tanks, and every last piece of electrical, pneumatic, and mechanical devices safe, reliable, and service-ready, the massive community of Biomedical Equipment Technicians (BMETs), Clinical Engineers (CEs), and Field Service Professionals (FEPs) are often working quietly on the front lines 24x7 in hospitals ensuring patients, physicians, and nurses have as many devices as possible saving lives, not sitting on shelves or in closets.

THANK YOU all for your hard and skillful work in the midst of this crisis.

Elliot Sloane & The IFMBE CED Board

Thank you,
Hacking Coronavirus Team

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