Philadelphia-based Penn Medicine has won ECRI Institute’s 2019 Health Devices Achievement Award for developing an app that enables patients to wean off ventilators faster.
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In this article, Blake Collins, director of clinical engineering at Wilmington, Del.-based Christiana Care Health System, discusses the facility’s recent “Most Wired” designation and how his team collaborates with IT to improve patient outcomes.
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Although HTM and IT departments operate independently at most facilities, the lines between biomed and IT are becoming increasingly blurred, 24×7 Magazine correspondent Chris Hayhurst explains in February’s cover story. Fortunately, this change doesn’t have to signify headaches for HTM professionals.
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Medtronic is notifying customers worldwide of a voluntary field corrective action—a software update—for its Puritan Bennett 980 (PB980) ventilator series. The software updates the external USB Drive performance and its impact on Graphical User Interface (GUI) functionality and the labeling displayed on the GUI during ventilator use, Medtronic said in a statement.
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ECRI Institute has named health technology cybersecurity at the top of its just-released 2019 Top 10 Health Technology Hazards. The report highlights the potential for hackers to exploit remote access systems to gain unauthorized entry to a healthcare organization’s networked devices and systems.
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