Adverse patient events involving medical devices.

In an AAMI survey last year of the top medical device-related challenges, 42% of respondents cited medical device incident reporting and investigations as an issue. All HTM professionals should make sure that they and their team understand their role in investing and reporting of APEs that involve medical devices. In general, all healthcare organizations have room for improvement in how they deal with APEs and NMEs. The discussion about how to do a better job of investigating and reporting these incidents should be going on in your organization. If the HTM team is not already participating in that discussion, it's time to start.