Study: Hospitals Not Adequately Prepared for Next Pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic wanes in the U.S., a new study finds that hospitals nationwide may not be adequately prepared for the next pandemic.
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How to Protect Healthcare Workers from COVID-19
Researchers are developing simple and inexpensive tools—like a do-it-yourself ventilator—to treat patients more effectively and prevent disease transmission in hospitals.
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Mature Analytic Structure Boosts Healthcare Response to COVID-19
As COVID-19 struck, one of the most critical decisions healthcare providers faced was how to best allocate limited medical resources, including ventilators. But organizations that already had a mature analytics structure in place fared better than those that didn’t.
How to Prepare Your Medical Device Company for an Exit
Medical device companies are increasingly getting acquired or merging with other manufacturers. So how can a company adequately prepare for a takeover? Greenberg Traurig corporate lawyer Wayne Elowe explains all here.
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Five Ways to Minimize Scope Damage and Repair Costs
Scopes used for minimally invasive procedures must be kept in proper working order to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients. Here are five ways to minimize scope damage and repair costs.
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Accruent, Attainia Link Up for Equipment Life Cycle Management
Austin, Texas-based Accruent and Attainia, based in Scottsdale, Ariz., have formed a partnership to help healthcare delivery organizations manage their full asset life cycles and reduce incremental costs.
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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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