AAMI has rolled out HIT 1000-4, Application of Human Factors Engineering, the latest in a series of provisional standards for unregulated medical software that consider the needs and responsibilities of end users, such as clinicians.
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to afflict the world, AAMI has released two consensus reports to guide manufacturers in making safe and reliable ventilatory assistance helmets.
For the first time, 24x7’s annual survey of job satisfaction and compensation queried respondents about their timeline for retirement in an effort to gauge the impending impact of the Boomer exodus from the workforce. The data confirmed what many in HTM already know intuitively to be true: Starting in about 5 years, the field will see a major wave of retirement lasting about a decade, although we’re already on the edge of the upswing.
To get certified or not to get certified? That’s the question the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) seeks to answer—and sway healthcare technology management professionals toward the latter.
Nicholas Grecco, CBET, didn’t originally set out to join the healthcare technology management field. Fortunately, he did—a happenstance that has benefited the field tremendously.
Looking to make an (even greater) impact on the world? The humanitarian aid organization Mercy Ships needs healthcare technology management professionals to help out on their floating hospitals.
The two AAMI Foundation grants, worth a total of more than $119,000, will support research initiatives that focus on improving patient safety and eliminating morbidity and mortality associated with the use of healthcare technology.