Category: Maintenance Strategies

Maintenance Strategies

Kontakt.io Launches Temperature Monitoring Solution for Healthcare Supplies

The cloud-based solution monitors temperature and humidity of refrigerators and regulated rooms with real-time alerts to ensure the safety of medications and biologicals.

Maintenance Strategies

Why Health Systems Keep Renting Equipment They Already Own—and How to Stop It

Health systems are unknowingly paying multiple times for the same medical equipment—once to own it, and again to rent it. The issue isn’t always increasing clinical demand; it’s often availability and visibility to medical device inventory.

Maintenance Strategies

Bed Maintenance: Should HTM Do It?

Disagreement often ensues when the subject of bed maintenance by biomeds arises, reveals biomedical expert Patrick Lynch. In May's The LynchPin column, Lynch lays out both arguments regarding HTM professionals handling bed maintenance and shares his personal opinions about the matter. Don't miss out.

Maintenance Strategies

Kontakt.io Launches Temperature Monitoring Solution for Healthcare Supplies

The cloud-based solution monitors temperature and humidity of refrigerators and regulated rooms with real-time alerts to ensure the safety of medications and biologicals.

Preventive Maintenance

AI Tops 2025 Health Technology Hazards List

ECRI’s 2025 report names AI-enabled health technologies as the top healthcare hazard, citing risks like bias, false results, and safety concerns, while urging careful integration alongside other critical challenges such as home care support gaps, cybersecurity threats, and medical device safety.

Alternative Equipment Maintenance

Top Medical Device Servicing Teams Cut Costs and Downtime with Smarter Strategies

New report shows that early intervention and better technician support—along with AI—drive better outcomes in medical device service.

Asset Management

What to Ask Before Signing a Third-Party Medical Equipment Service Contract

Asking the right questions helps ensure quality service, control costs, support compliance, and avoid surprise charges or service gaps.

Power Management

US Med-Equip, Zopec Medical Partner for Backup Batteries

US Med-Equip and Zopec Medical have partnered to offer hospitals portable, high-performance battery solutions for crucial medical devices.

Maintenance Strategies

Rockwell Medical to Distribute Single-Use Bicarbonate Cartridge for Hemodialysis

Rockwell Medical partners with a medical equipment manufacturer to distribute an FDA-cleared single-use bicarbonate cartridge.

Preventive Maintenance

Using Predictive Work Systems to Anticipate Medical Equipment Failure

Leveraging advanced technologies like predictive work systems, RTLS, and AI helps health systems proactively prevent equipment failures, one industry expert says.

Alternative Equipment Maintenance

Traditions Health Taps Joint Commission for Accreditation, Certification Services

Through Joint Commission accreditation and certification, Traditions Health will bolster its commitment to patient safety and quality improvement.

Asset Management

Westlake Launches Choose Pink PVC Recycling Program

Westlake Global Compounds and Westlake Dimex have launched a PVC recycling program called Choose Pink with Houston Methodist Hospital.

Power Management

How to Protect Power Systems from Cyber Threats

In this 24x7 exclusive, learn how digital transformation is revolutionizing healthcare, raising cybersecurity risks, and highlighting the need for hospitals to strengthen defenses while adopting connected power systems for seamless service.

Maintenance Strategies

How RTLS Can Boost Nurse Efficiency, Safety

Vizzia Technologies and Georgia State University recently partnered on a white paper investigating how real-time location systems (RTLS) could save nurses up to $14 billion annually—a finding Vizzia's CEO Jim Forbes highlights here.