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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AAMI President and CEO Mary Logan has announced that she plans to retire at the end of 2016. Under her leadership, the association has pursued aggressive patient safety initiatives, collaborated with the US Food and Drug Administration on a series of health technology summits, expanded educational and professional resources for members, and overhauled its annual conference.
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The Joint Commission’s deadline for implementing Phase II of the National Patient Safety Goal on clinical alarm management is approaching January 1, 2016. In this month’s Soapbox, Clarice Balconi-Lamica of the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center shares how her facility assembled a core decision-making team to tackle the issue.
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The North Carolina Biomedical Association’s understanding of what healthcare technology management professionals need—and its ongoing efforts to meet those challenges in a cost-effective way—help explain why the group continues to be one of the largest regional biomedical associations in the country.
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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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