If you’re attending only one professional conference this year, chances are it’s AAMI—and that’s a good thing. The annual gathering of the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is the largest in the field, with more than 2,200 people in attendance.
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The AAMI 2016 educational lineup revolves around six core themes that address the essential skills, duties, and challenges of the field: future trends, management of technology and people, patient safety, imaging, cross-departmental collaboration, and professional development.
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Batteries are an important part of daily life in the hospital. But because they sit silently in the background, they are often overlooked and ignored. That makes it especially important for healthcare technology management professionals to boost their battery know-how.
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ECRI Institute has released its third annual list of Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns to help hospitals proactively identify key patient safety concerns. Leading the list are challenges associated with incompatible health IT configurations and workflow, followed by patient identification errors and management of behavioral health issues in nonbehavioral health settings.
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The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum have announced the 2015 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The awards, presented at NQF’s annual conference April 7-8, 2016, in Washington, DC, honored industry leaders for initiatives to reduce patient deaths and control healthcare costs.
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