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The Need to Manage Wireless Technologies in Health Care Environments

Computers influenced many industries in the mid-20th century, and health care was no exception. Advances in computing technology over the last 60 years has allowed for significant improvements in the way patients are treated and facilities are managed. With the advent of global computer networking in the 1970s, a new era in medical information accessibility […]

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The Basics of Anesthesia

Every year, when I speak with biomedical technicians who have recently taken the CBET exam, I am always amazed at how many anesthesia questions they tell me they had on the exam. Personally, I believe anesthesia is a specialty rather than general biomed, so many examinees may not service this type of device. However, the […]

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Combating Alarm Fatigue

If your cell phone had the same ring tone as everyone else’s, would you always answer your phone? In a crowd of people with many phones going off at the same time, you would probably become conditioned to the sound and possibly ignore it. If technology had not leaped forward to allow people to personalize […]

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