As HTM professionals, it’s important to remember who you are caring for—and why you’re doing it, maintains technology manager and educator Jeff Ruiz in this Soapbox article. In it, he encourages readers to find their respective ‘why’s’ and shares his personal story.
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Clinical engineering expert Binseng Wang says he’s heard a problematic argument lately: that in addition to promoting equipment safety, alternative equipment maintenance is also designed to cut costs. Not so, Wang argues, and viewing AEM as a way to save money is potentially detrimental to HTM departments.
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An engineering professor at the Ga.-based Kennesaw State University and her team of students have developed a new finger support that could help those suffering from finger deformities regain motor function.
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Below, four individuals in the CMMS space sit down with 24×7 Magazine to discuss what hospitals should look for when purchasing a computerized maintenance management system and how this technology is changing the game for HTM departments.
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Repair activities—aka: service on demand—can be disruptive to both the provision of clinical care and the operation of HTM departments, asserts biomedical engineering educator William A. Hyman in this CE Perspectives column. Here, Hyman explains why “excessive” repairs can be problematic on many levels.
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