Time to Power Up
In this article, Eaton’s Ed Spears reveals what extreme weather, the COVID-19 vaccine storage, and Texas hospital outages tell us about power management—and what HTM professionals should do with this knowledge.
Category: Power Management
Power Management
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Power Management
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Delivering Critical Patient Care amid Unexpected Outages
Natural disasters have always threatened healthcare facilities with unexpected outages, but the growing frequency of such events has put a new spotlight on power management infrastructure. Fortunately, technologies have emerged to help guard healthcare facilities and drive continuous patient care.
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Lights Out: Tracking the Impact of Power Outages
As the need for power continues to grow in the mission-critical healthcare environment, providers can’t afford any downtime. But with the magnitude of ever-escalating power threats and the growing complexity of healthcare IT, uptime isn’t an easy guarantee. Here’s why.
Batteries
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Battery Standard Provides Guidance on Testing Environmental Performance
After technical review, the NEMA/ANSI Dry Battery Section revised ANSI C18.4M American National Standard for Portable Cells and Batteries—Environmental. This standard provides guidance on testing the environmental performance of batteries, the symbols used to convey messages for collection and recycling, and more.
Outages
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Tripp Lite Introduces Medical-Grade USB Charger
Chicago-based Tripp Lite has introduced a direct plug-in USB charger listed to UL 60601-1, making it the only USB charger on the market certified as fully compliant for use in patient-care vicinities, company officials say. This charger provides one USB Type-A port with 2.5A of power to charge a USB medical device, among other objects.
Financial
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Medical Device Company Sensus Healthcare, Inc. to Join Russell Microcap Index
Membership in the Russell Index means automatic inclusion in the appropriate growth and value style indexes for Sensus, which specializes in technologies for the non-invasive treatment of skin cancer.