Fonds KGH 5999-710 - Kingston General Hospital Clinical Engineering fonds

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Kingston General Hospital Clinical Engineering fonds

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    CA ON00153 KGH 5999-710

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    • 1985-1999 (Creation)

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    0.25 m of textual material

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    Administrative history

    Dr. Mike Henderson was hired as a consultant biomedical engineer for Kingston General Hospital in August, 1981 and was responsible for 'Management Engineering.' In 1982, he was appointed Director of the newly named Department of Clinical Engineering. Today, the role of Clinical Engineering is to manage health care technology for KGH and Hotel Dieu Hospital; this includes primary responsibility for ensuring medical technology meets appropriate standards of safety, efficiency, cost effectiveness, and efficacy. Since 2002, Clinical Engineering has reported to the Vice President, Program Support and Dr. Mike Henderson remains the Director.

    Custodial history

    Following an inventory of active and inactive records in Clinical Engineering in 2006, selected records were transferred to the KGH Archive.

    Scope and content

    The Clinical Engineering fonds contains the administrative record of the Hospital's clinical engineering function. The fonds includes policies and procedures, minutes of staff meetings, disaster preparedness materials and presentations. Fonds is comprised of the following series: Series 1: Policies and Procedures Series 2: Correspondence Series 3: Staff Meetings Series 4: Disaster Planning Series 5: Presentations

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        Open to researchers subject to the requirements of the Hospital’s Administrative Health Research Policy and Ontario’s Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004 (PHIPA).

        Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication

        Copyright provisions and access conditions may apply. Please contact a Hospital Archivist.

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        Available from the KGH Archives.

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