Leading the Charge
In this roundtable, three medical equipment battery experts discuss what’s propelling growth in this sector and reveal what pitfalls to avoid when purchasing medical batteries.
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Service Solutions: Maximizing Battery Performance
When it comes to power management, regular monitoring and maintenance of uninterruptible power systems (UPSs) is critical to ensuring continuous uptime of electrical systems. This is a particularly crucial consideration for UPS batteries, which serve as the backbone of these systems and are also the most vulnerable component. Battery failure is a leading cause of load loss, so knowing how to mitigate risks will help to prolong battery life while also saving you time and troubles down the road.
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Effective Battery Management Strategies
Although batteries are often an afterthought when it comes to medical devices, they are critically important. Poor battery management can knock crucial medical devices out of action, compromise patient care, and cost organizations a lot of money.
Reader Feedback: More About Batteries
Even the average consumer knows that batteries are a big deal. On the 24×7 website, a number of readers questioned whether the advice offered by some experts in last month’s article on battery management might go too far.
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Reader Feedback: PM Policies, Battery Testing Are Top of Mind
Comments on the 24×7 website for the last two weeks have focused on preventive maintenance (PM) procedures and policies and the ins and outs of battery testing.
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RTLS Transmitter Series Increases Zone Coverage with Less Hardware
Sonitor RTLS Technologies will showcase its new Quad-LT location transmitter series at the upcoming HIMSS conference. The RTLS transmitter can divide a room into four separate virtual zones for increased efficiency and reduced cost.
Read MoreNCBA 2014: Battery Management Should Cover All Phases of Life Cycle
Speaking on the final day of the North Carolina Biomedical Association’s annual conference, Jeff Smith of Interstate All Battery Center stressed the importance of full life-cycle management of medical batteries.
Read MoreFDA Recognizes UL Battery Standards
According to Underwriters Laboratories (UL), the FDA has recognized two UL battery safety standards as consensus standards for certain types of medical batteries. The two standards are UL 2504 for Household and Commercial Batteries and UL 1642 for Lithium Batteries (Cells).
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Recharge Your Batteries: Tips From the Experts
Representatives from the University of Michigan Health System and ECRI Institute offered advice for keeping your rechargeables fully functioning and purchasing batteries from third-party suppliers.
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Service Solutions: Battery Basics
Did you ever wonder why a brand-new battery doesn’t work in a device? Do you know which type of battery has memory? Do you know which types can be thrown in regular trash and which are recycled? If you’re not sure, it’s time for some battery basics.
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Service Solutions: Smart Batteries and Medical Devices
Smart batteries represent a key advance in battery technology. They use a microprocessor to monitor the battery’s state of health and to control the charge when the battery is plugged into a smart charger. The technology continues to improve.
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Handheld Terminals Speed Up Barcode Scanning
DENSO ADC has released a new line of handheld barcode scanners whose sensors process data faster than lasers. The BHT-1300 series 1D and 2D wireless devices have been revamped to offer a hardier design alongside a 3-year warranty.
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A Coming Sea Change for Real-Time Location Systems
Real-time location technology is transitioning into its third generation as facilities move away from strict focus on asset tracking and temperature monitoring and toward a greater emphasis on workflow logic and advanced business rules and analytics.
Read MoreFDA Hosts Conference on Battery-Powered Devices
The conference will foster awareness of challenges related to battery-powered medical devices and to develop ways to ensure best practices.
Read MorePanasonic Upgrades Toughbook Tablet PC
The new H2 includes a faster processor, the Intel Core i5-3427U (up to 2.8GHz) with Intel Turbo Boost Technology.
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