Each December offers an opportunity to turn inward and take stock. This month, chief editor Jenny Lower asked 24×7’s editorial board members to share which issues had most captured their attention in 2015 and which topics would drive the HTM agenda in 2016.
Read MoreAccording to a white paper published by the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA), cybersecurity best practices and standards by manufacturers and healthcare providers offer the clearest line of defense against cyber attacks. Manufacturers, installers, service staff, and healthcare providers must work together to advance cybersecurity measures, particularly as the Internet of Things advances towards greater interoperability and data exchange.
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What’s the best way to handle the follow-up after a repair, or pin down a hard-to-reach vendor? For a long time, paper repair tickets, phone calls, and voicemails sufficed, but in today’s fast-paced culture, we often struggle to reach our customers. Increasingly, the solution to efficient, effective communication lies in direct messaging.
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Insufficiently processed endoscopes have risen to first place on ECRI Institute’s 2016 list of the top health technology hazards, bumping alarm hazards, the previous placeholder for at least 3 years running, to second place.
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New tools are emerging in the healthcare space that are so full of potential, it’s anyone’s guess what their impact may be. Some of these trends may prove to be fleeting, or merely a stepping stone to something else, but others may ultimately transform the entire industry.
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