Appropriate Medical Equipment
Robust medical equipment should be the standard for procurement in all settings
The AME label creates a globally accepted definition of appropriate medical equipment
Our mission is to ensure that medical equipment is clinically safe, adapted to local needs, acceptable to users, and maintainable within the available resources of the community or country
Criteria
Testing Criteria
Internal design
Installation
Preventive maintenance interval
Parts
Tools
Skills
Diagnostics
Retirement
interface
user experience
errors & warnings
Environmental
Electrical
Chemical
Mechanical
Facility
Install
Planning
Capital
Operational
Quality Management Systems
Device Certification
Device
Manuals
Media
Distribution
Capacity
Timing
What You Should Remember
AME finds universal agreement on “appropriate medical equipment”
We create a measurable definition of "appropriate medical equipment" by defining fixed transparent criteria.
We
ensure this is agreed upon by users, ministries of health, donors and other medical equipment ecosystem stakeholders
AME provides access to "appropriate medical equipment"
We test medical equipment against the AME standard and support ministries of health to do the right thing.
The set of fixed transparent criteria is available for innovators to provide fit for purpose solutions.
AME promotes and lifts the biomedical engineering profession in LMICs
We partner with and help build testing labs at strategic LMIC locations.
We create jobs and an alternative career path for biomedical engineers and technicians
AME is a social enterprise made up of experienced, diverse, unbiased and committed team of 12 biomedical engineers and global health professionals with combined experience of over 200 years from 5 continents
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