ROI for Pop Health IT Still Not Quite in View
Many hospitals and healthcare systems are "becoming less optimistic" about population health management tools producing ROI through value-based reimbursement anytime soon.
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Ozone Disinfectants Can Be Used to Sterilize Cloth and N95 Masks
In an editorial published in The Open Dermatology Journal, Craig G. Burkhart, MD, offers his suggestion for sterilizing protective masks.
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Adding Value: Why Technicians Make Better Managers
Requiring that in-house maintenance departments be managed by degreed clinical engineers may have made sense in the past, but today priority should be given to technicians who have demonstrated technical competence at the front-line levels.
CE Reflections: Introduction to the Alphabet Soup
In this installment of CE Reflections, Massachusetts General Hospital Systems Engineering Manager Rick Schrenker cuts through the jargon and shares why HTM professionals need to know—and comply—with some important acronyms.
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Philips Completes Acquisition of Carestream Health’s HCIS Business
Royal Philips has completed the acquisition of Carestream Health Inc.’s Healthcare Information Systems (HCIS) business in 26 of the 38 countries in which it operates. Carestream HCIS’s cloud-enabled enterprise imaging platform will expand Philips’ current enterprise diagnostic informatics solutions, company officials say.
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Sounding Off About Medical Alarm Management
An electrode needing to be changed has little impact on patient safety. But alarms tied directly to a patient’s health, such as monitors that alert when oxygen levels have become dangerously low, need to be clear so a clinician is cued to act. Here is HTM’s responsibility.
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Embracing—Not Resisting—Change in HTM
In this Soapbox column, technology manager Jeffrey Ruiz discusses change—namely, why HTM professionals should start to embrace it, rather than run from it.
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Evaluating Your Service Options
24×7 Magazine reached out to several service-oriented companies for our annual snapshot of what’s available to HTM departments that either don’t have all the resources they need to handle technology management on their own, or value the “value add” that such companies can offer in their quest to do great work at the lowest possible cost. Here’s what they said.
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AdvaMed Approves Updated Code of Ethics
The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) announces that its board of directors has approved an update of its longstanding Code of Ethics on Interactions with Health Care Professionals in the United States. The revisions will be effective Jan. 1, 2020, to ensure ample time for stakeholder implementation.
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New Book Explores Financial Management in HTM
Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, fAIMBE, fACCE, a member of 24×7 Magazine’s editorial board, has published a new book for the HTM field: Engineering Financial Management and Benchmarking: Essential tools to manage finances and remain competitive for clinical engineering/healthcare technology management professionals.
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Simeon Medical’s Surgical Lighting Solutions
After being customized to the individual needs of an operating room, and following installation, the innovative module format allows for easy onsite reconfiguration, replacement, and repair of the company’s surgical lighting systems.
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TriMedx Names New Executive VP of Strategic Client Value and Relationships
Industry veteran Ramy Boghdadi brings to the job more than 20 years of leadership experience in the clinical engineering and clinical asset management segments of healthcare.
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Infection Control Demands Driving Growth in Automated Endoscope Reprocessor Market
Preventing the spread of healthcare-acquired infections is compelling clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, and hospitals around the globe to purchase automated endoscope reprocessors.
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Global Patient Monitoring Market to Grow to $25.3 Billion
The global patient monitoring market is slated to grow from its current $19.14 billion valuation to $25.31 billion by 2023, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. Factors such as the widespread availability of wireless monitoring devices and the rising incidence of lifestyle and chronic diseases are expected to drive market growth during the forecast period, researchers say.
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The Dangers of Downtime: Keeping the Power on in a 24×7 Environment
Power plays a vital role in a healthcare organization’s ability to run efficiently and deliver quality care to patients. Unfortunately, disasters can strike at any time. In this article, Eaton’s Ed Spears discusses tangible ways healthcare organizations can reduce the dangers of downtime.
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