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Ocotober 20th: Welcome to our 3rd Biomed Congress. Todays meeting will be in Azalea/Begonia Room, Hilton Hotel WDW at starting at 8:00 AM. Use the above links to see the agenda and conference call information for today's events. We are looking forward to a great event hope to see you soon.

Well, tomorrow is the Biomed Congress meeting! We hope to see or hear from you. Our meeting room in the Hilton will be in Azalea/Begonia @ 8 AM

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October 20th

FMESA

3rd Biomed Congress @MDEXPO 11

Hilton in the Walt Disney World Resort
1751 Hotel Plaza Boulevard
Lake Buena Vista, FL

To Our Fellow Biomedical Professionals, Medical Equipment Support Professionals and Interested Related Professionals,

The Federation of Medical Equipment Support Associations (FMESA) is proud to invite you to the Third Biomed Congress which will be held during this year’s MD Expo in

TechNation MD Expo is proud to host and support The Federation of Medical Equipment Support Associations' (FMESA) 3rd Biomed Congress. Our theme this year will be a question: Our Profession has a new name "Healthcare Technology Management" so what's next?  To help answer that question FMESA will be providing a forum to begin to address this question and others that may arise. AAMI will have a representative at the forum to provide information and their vision of where we are headed and to gather information to bring back to AAMI's leadership. We are looking forward to good working discussions and exchanges of ideas on this matter. In addition, the Federation of Medical Equipment Support Associations (FMESA) will also be providing a report and will take comments on last year's Biomed Congress' Initiative, Addressing Core Biomedical Education. Lastly, FMESA will conduct its annual required business meeting which will include new board member elections. We hope to see you all there.

Download program infomation: 3rdBiomedCongressPC.pdf

 FMESA3rd_Biomed_Congress_Annoucement.doc FMESA3rdBiomedCongressAgendaDraft.doc

June 25 - 27, 2011

 Wishing AAMI a very successful Conference

Attention:

AAMI Forum Recommends Unified Name, Vision for Field

"Healthcare Technology Management"

Follow link to read AAMI Press

FMESA will be working with our members, META, Biomedical Societies and the medical equipment service professionals around the country providing feedback to AAMI during their 90 Day public comment period. We hope for a thoughtful debate on the pros and cons of their recommendation. FMESA wishes to thank all the members who worked on this Forum, especially Pat Lynch and Karen Waninger for conveying FMESA concerns suggestions to the Summit. We look forward to a full report from Pat and Karen at the next FMESA Board Meeting May 11 Follow our twitter account for more timely updates from all biomed outlets. We will provide additional information as it develops stay posted. -FM

Follow up:

FMESA had a very productive conference Wednesday, on Wedensday, April 13th to discuss the upcoming AAMI Summit please, review recording if you did not have a chance to attend. Visit the FMESA News Tab for the Recording Link. Also see under Resources For Biomeds Tab - Useful Documents - IBS Help Name The Profession

Urgent Response is needed!

Help Develop a Recommendation for a

Classification for Our Profession

Attention to FMESA members and friends:

AAMI will be holding a 2 day

FMESA will be hosting a conference call to provide a forum to collect feedback, concerns and ideas to present at the AAMI meeting. It will be in your best interest to attend. The call will be held on

Our time on the conference will be limited to about an hour. The Board understands this is a short time frame and it is not our expectation to solve the long running issue.  However, it may be more relevant to develop a process or a framework to reach this objective.

Thank you in advance.

Frederick McMurtrie, CBET

2011 President FMESA

FMESA President's Report for 2010:

So we are finishing our first year and currently we have 10 biomed associations, 6 Biomed employers and 1 Biomed Educator as members. We are looking for continued growth in 2011. FMESA's focus is to provide bridges between the biomed associations, national groups (AAMI, META, ACCE, Ect.) and others interested in the Biomedical Profession. To this end we have supported and promoted AAMI's National Biomedical/Clinical Engineering Week; FMESA leadership has attend and participated in AAMI's Educator's Round Table and FMESA has worked hard to help promote the state level biomedical associations' annual meetings. We have worked providing feedback and reviewed the legislation that was almost passed in Texas. FMESA will continue to watch this and all legislation that may be on the horizon.

We have just finished our 2nd Biomedical Congress held in Austin, TX this October where we continued to work on Educational Standards for Biomeds. Other suggestions at the meeting were for FMESA to work with our "coalition of the willing" to provide current information to BMET wiki web site, on Association's meetings throughout the United States. Exploring a partnership with ECRI, working on creating better "Medical Equipment Classification Keys" and a "Best Practices for obtaining service manuals" to list just a few things being looked at. We continue to make progress for out reach to all biomed groups big and small, with California Medical Instrumentation Association (CMIA) being the latest to show interest in joining FMESA.

However, the most important function FMESA provides is a means of expression for all biomeds though the biomed congress. Each Biomed Association has a representative in FMESA and this is how a group gets it's voice. The association members may submit petitions/Bills for the congress to consider for action. FMESA members may exchange information on best practices and other information they wish to share with the delegate members and the other members of FMESA. I look forward to a continuing dialog with our members and future members.

To our professions continued success,

Frederick McMurtrie, CBET

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  COME TO THE 2ND BIOMED CONGRESS

OCTOBER 17 - 20, 2010

To: Our Fellow Biomedical Professional Organizations,

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 2^nd Biomedical Congress which will be held this year October 18^th & 19^th at

If your group wishes to join FMESA for full privileges (Delegate Representation) then visit our website (www.FMESA.org) under the membership application tab. We will also accept your membership at the MD Expo if you choose. FMESA has six Biomed Society or Group membership types based on the size of your membership. (You determine the size.) Your group receives the number of votes based on this number up to 6. An example is, if your group has 100 members you would choose category 2 and your delegate would have two votes at our proceedings.

FMESA will have a booth at the MD Expo and will be able to provide you with further assistance if needed to guide you though the process. Our members include The Florida Biomedical Society, Biomedical Engineering Society of Texas, East Tennessee Biomedical Association and many more. We look forward to having you become a greater part of the Biomedical Community leadership by working with FMESA though the Biomedical Congress.

You may feel free to contact any of the FMESA board members if you have questions or would like to make suggestions. Contact information may be found on the FMESA’s website or you may call me directly. If your group is planning on attending with an ambassador is important that you email me that person’s information so that they will be registered and accounted for at the meeting.

Thank you.

To our continued success,

Frederick McMurtrie, CBET

President, FMESA

f2mcmurtrie@browardhealth.org