HOSPITAL PURCHASING.

Hospital Materials Management, June, 2001

* Mass. General begins upgrade program for monitoring, pulse oximetry devices

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 855 beds, has embarked on a program to upgrade its patient monitoring and pulse oximetry equipment.

Since March the hospital has been installing equipment from Masimo, Irvine, Calif.; Welch Allyn Protocol, Beaverton, Ore.; and GE Medical Systems Information Technology, Milwaukee.

The new sensors, made by Masimo, are designed to reduce errors caused by patient motion.

The other two companies are providing patient monitoring devices. The first departments to make the conversion were cardiac surgical service and neonatal intensive care.

Director of materials management Victoria Diamond said the decision to...

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