Franciscan Health Rensselaer, located in Rensselaer, Ind., has purchased a new Carestream DRX-Excel Plus radiography fluoroscopy system and a Carestream DRW-Evolution Plus to enable the delivery of high-quality x-ray images. Such a move will improve physician access and patient care at the critical-access hospital, Carestream executives say.
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From August 17-18, nearly 250 members of the biomedical community convened at the Drury Lane Theatre and Conference Center in Oakbrook Terrace, IL, for the annual meeting of the Clinical Engineering Association of Illinois (CEAI). “The biggest highlight was our theme,” CEAI President Suraj Soudagar says: ‘2016 Watershed: HTM in Transition,’ Such a subject spoke to the current changes affecting the health care technology management (HTM) field, he explains—particularly the FDA’s call for greater regulations.
Read MoreThe Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) Board of Directors has elected Philips Healthcare’s Joe Robinson as vice chair, effective immediately. In other association news, MITA’s director of regulatory and standards strategy, Megan Hayes, has been selected as a recipient of the 2016 American National Standards Association Meritorious Service Award.
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Diagnosis is the primary and most critical step toward a successful treatment—however, diagnostic errors can take a huge toll at both an individual and system level. In this article, HealthClues founder Sandeep Pandey shares what HTM professionals need to know about physician errors—and ways to combat them.
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The Texas Medical Center (TMC) Innovation Institute has welcomed 11 startups selected from more than 100 applications to its accelerator program, TMCx, which for the first time is focusing exclusively on medical devices. This is the third installment of TMCx, a program that couples the resources of the world’s largest medical center with the innovative spark of entrepreneurs.
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