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.
Read MoreThe FBI has issued a public service announcement warning that increasing reliance on web-based technologies is creating new opportunities for cyber attacks, and these threats apply to a range of medical and other devices—essentially any component or system that “connects to the Internet to automatically send and/or receive data.”
Read MoreThe last 2 years have brought encouraging signs of progress in the struggle for cybersecurity, says Anthony Catalano, a healthcare security management consultant for SecureState, a cybersecurity firm. Hospital leaders are increasingly recognizing the seriousness of the issue and making it a higher priority at their facilities. However, balancing long-term security concerns against day-to-day needs remains an ongoing challenge for many healthcare facilities.
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