COVID-19 vaccines bring with them the promise of decreased deaths worldwide and the chance for all of us to return to a more “normal” life. What’s not to like, right? Ironically, the vaccines do create a unique set of challenges for the medical imaging industry that could have alarming consequences.
USMedic worked with VMware's Pivotal Labs to create and deploy a solution to locate and manage medical equipment for patients with COVID-19.
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.
Strategies to help state and local planners in allocating stockpiled ventilators to healthcare facilities, including pre-pandemic actions and actions to be taken during the pandemic, are detailed in a new article appearing in Health Security.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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