20-Mile Bluetooth Beacon Tracks Equipment, Helps Save Lives
The new Bluetooth beacon tracks equipment with the ability to transmit data up to 20 miles and through up to 20 building floors.
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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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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.
TriMedx Names Richard Schneider Chief Operating Officer
Richard Schneider has taken over as chief operating officer of TriMedx, where he will focus on the medical equipment management company’s overall operations, including customer and employee relationships. Schneider brings to the role more than 20 years of experience in operations, strategy, account management, business development, and finance/risk management.
Read MoreIt’s Not Too Late for Biomeds to Embrace Reliability-centered Maintenance
The healthcare technology management field may have lagged behind other sectors like aviation in adopting reliability-centered maintenance (RCM), but it’s not too late for biomeds to shift their approach to medical equipment management, Malcolm Ridgway said in his AAMI 2016 address. Last October, Ridgway and other AAMI leaders launched the RCM Project, which aimed to “disseminate clear, relevant information” about the maintenance strategy and create a community-wide database.
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Handy Land: A Day in the Life of a Biomed
Do your workdays often feel like a children’s board game? Grab a wrench and see if you can make it through all the work orders by 5 o’clock!
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Medical Equipment Refurbishment Saves a Buck, and It’s Eco-friendly
A new brochure highlighting the positive impact of medical equipment refurbishment on the economy, the environment, and patients is now available for free download. The publication was prepared by the Global Diagnostic Imaging, Healthcare IT and Radiation Therapy Trade Association (DITTA), an international organization representing associations and companies in the diagnostic imaging, radiation therapy, healthcare IT, electromedical, and radiopharmaceutical spaces.
Read MoreTeleTracking, GE Healthcare Team Up on Patient Flow
TeleTracking Technologies and GE Healthcare have announced an agreement to work together to transition interested clients now on GE patient flow solutions to TeleTracking solutions.
Read MoreECRI Debuts Mobile Market Analytics Tool
ECRI Institute has released the SelectPlus Market Analytics tool, a mobile-friendly decision support tool designed for hospital supply chain teams. The system offers customizable views of medical technology marketplace data, including service contracts, market share, and price benchmarking.
Read MoreStanley Healthcare Debuts Visualization Platform for AeroScout RTLS
With the aim of surfacing more useful and comprehensive data for hospitals, Stanley Healthcare has released a new “visual business intelligence platform,” called MobileView Analytics, for its AeroScout real-time location system solutions.
Read MoreMediMizer Updates Web Work Order App
The company behind the MediMizer CMMS for hospitals, MediMizer Inc, Encinitas, Calif, has released the seventh update of its Web Work Order App.
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Denso Releases New Wireless Barcode Terminals
DENSO ADC has announced new wireless 1D and 2D handheld barcode terminals featuring the Windows Embedded Compact 7 operating system and a 3-year warranty.
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Clinical Alarm Management: Bringing the Buzz Under Control
Effective clinical alarm management requires a multipronged approach to address the disparate factors behind excessive alarms and the fatigue they cause.
Read MoreCase Study: Collaboration Leads to a Clinical Alarms Solution
How James Piepenbrink’s department of clinical engineering at Boston Medical Center worked with a multidisciplinary task force to implement a successful alarm management program.
Read MoreUnfors RaySafe Partners with Philips on Dose Management System
Unfors RaySafe, acquired by Fluke Biomedical in February 2014, has signed an exclusive agreement with Philips to license out the Patient Dose Management System RaySafe S1, a cloud-based patient dose tracking system that helps healthcare institutions lower patient dose, improve process quality, and increase productivity in imaging workflow.
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