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The Advantages of DQM

Data Quality Management (DQM) is the newest name for a process that has been around for a very long time. DQM is a technique for authenticating, maintaining, and disseminating accurate, comprehensive data vital in medical equipment inventories and for quality control administration. I label DQM as a simple mathematical equation: Garbage in equals garbage out. […]

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Converging the Networks

Tim Gee For more than 20 years, medical device manufacturers have been designing networked systems. These medical device system networks were designed to operate physically separate from the enterprise network. In private networks, manufacturers applied the same design principles to the network implementation of their systems as they did to embedded system devices. Variables were […]

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Data Storage Challenges: Developing a Plan

Data collection increases as technology advances, with imaging alone generating terabytes of data. From the moment of hospital admission to discharge, patients generate data. As hospitals go increasingly digital, so does information—not just patient demographics, but also imaging, diagnostic, monitoring, and treatment data. “If you want to look at what IT has for our location, […]

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