How Vendor Partnerships Shape The Healthcare Technology Experience
Fragmented ownership across healthcare technology systems can strain HTM teams, underscoring the need for clearer accountability and better coordination among technology partners.
Fragmented ownership across healthcare technology systems can strain HTM teams, underscoring the need for clearer accountability and better coordination among technology partners.
The medical equipment maintenance market, projected to grow at 9.1% annually, is driven by increased demand due to COVID-19, a focus on preventive maintenance, technological advancements, and the rising prevalence of chronic diseases, despite challenges like high maintenance costs.
Researchers are developing simple and inexpensive tools—like a do-it-yourself ventilator—to treat patients more effectively and prevent disease transmission in hospitals.
Fragmented ownership across healthcare technology systems can strain HTM teams, underscoring the need for clearer accountability and better coordination among technology partners.
Preventing the spread of healthcare-acquired infections is compelling clinics, ambulatory surgical centers, and hospitals around the globe to purchase automated endoscope reprocessors.
Read MoreTechnology is driving the future of care delivery, and it is important for the healthcare industry to stay current with these innovative solutions—so critical, in fact, that it can affect a health system’s organizational success. Here, Zipnosis CEO Jon Pearce shares why virtual care is the missing ingredient in your digital health strategy.
Read MoreECRI Institute has launched a new online education program, Risk Management Basics, which is designed to help health care professionals learn how to handle key challenges across the continuum of care. The courses are based on the guidance ECRI Institute has been providing for 30-plus years in its Healthcare Risk Control System.
Read MoreWhether your feel the pinch of an actual cut, lose a position due to attrition, or simply aren’t allowed to hire as your workload increases, most of us will be tasked with doing more with less at some point. But how do you manage these situations? After all, most people aren’t in a position to reduce the services they provide or charge more for them. That’s where process improvement comes in.
Read MoreSince being introduced by Bill Smith in 1986, Six Sigma techniques have been used as a strategy for process improvement across a myriad of business and industrial sectors worldwide. The philosophy operates from the premise that all works are processes that can be defined, measured, analyzed, improved, and controlled.
Read MoreChange is an inevitable part of the healthcare industry, and of life. Last month, it came to 24×7 when John Bethune stepped down after more than 2 years at the magazine’s helm. Jenny Lower has replaced him as chief editor after previously serving as the magazine’s associate editor and managing editor.
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Author Valdez Bravo explains how a chasm formed between clinical engineering departments and executive offices, and what steps we can can take to bridge it.