The Webinar Wednesday series continues to deliver free continuing education credits to healthcare technology management (HTM) professionals around the world! One recent webinar explored medical device security. Another presentation featured two experts on workflows and compliance.
Medical Device Security
The Webinar Wednesday presentation “Finding Your Phase of Medical Device Security with Nuvolo and Cynerio” was sponsored by Cynerio and eligible for 1 credit from the ACI.
Most health care environments contain thousands of OT, IoT and IoMT devices that vastly improve patient care. The devices also introduce significant new cybersecurity risks. Unfortunately, securing these devices with traditional IT approaches has become an unachievable challenge. In order to protect patients and the facilities providing care, new approaches and technologies must be adopted and integrated with in-place systems.
In the webinar, Chad Holmes, security evangelist at Cynerio, and Dustin Smith, executive solution consultant at Nuvolo, discussed common phases of securing connected devices in health care environments, key activities in each phase and steps that can be taken to start improving cybersecurity practices immediately. From assessing risk to automating inventory, and finally improving monitoring and response activities, the session provided a clear roadmap for attendees.
The webinar also included a question-and-answer segment where attendees could obtain additional expert insights. One question was about using a CMMS to improve security practices. The presenters said it is usually a rather quick process.
Another question asked about what steps can be taken when funding is not available.
The presenters suggested speaking with vendors because they can sometimes share solutions that other customers have used and are often willing to work with you to find a solution.
The complete question-and-answer session is available in the on-demand recording of the webinar at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided feedback about the webinar in a survey that included the question, “What does Webinar Wednesday provide the industry?”
“Great value and information on hot topics that apply to our HTM industry,” Manager Shannon Dingus said.
“The technologies at HTM evolve rapidly and all HTMs learn these trends in a timely manner. The TechNation webinar series fills these gaps for HTMs,” said Tedd Koh, MET, Olive View UCLA Medical Center.
“Good general knowledge, lots of topics that explain what is happening in the field of health care,” said Glenn Fraser, CBET, Stanford Children’s Healthcare.
“These webinars give a lot of insight to facets of biomed support that are frequently overlooked by the engineering management that is more interested in plumbing solutions than software security,” said David Green, system designer with Square One Industries.
Workflows, Compliance
The Webinar Wednesday session “Using Existing Tools to Strengthen Your Workflows and Compliance” was sponsored by Phoenix Data Systems. It was a popular session with 87 attendees for the live presentation. It was eligible for 1 credit from the ACI. An on-demand recording of the webinar is available at WebinarWednesday.live.
In the session, Mike Roggmann, CBET-R, LSSBB, project manager/implementation lead at Phoenix Data Systems, discussed using existing tools to strengthen workflows and compliance.
Roggmann answered the following questions during his presentation:
• What is a workflow?
• Why is this important?
• Where to start?
• What do workflow reviews mean for CMMS?
He also discussed the easiest ways to review if workflows are being followed and how to simplify continued monitoring to make it easy.
During a question-and-answer session, one attendee asked if there is a method for helping techs know about contracts and other work related to a device?
Roggmann said there are a couple of different ways a technician can achieve that with AIMS. He went on to discuss the different approaches to obtain that information.
He also discussed how to view PM completion and project productivity using AIMS.
An on-demand recording of the webinar, including the Q&A session, is available at WebinarWednesday.live.
Attendees provided feedback via a survey that included the question, “Why did you attend today’s webinar?”
“I will be able to use the information of the system to share with my biomed students at the college. They do need to know how the new CMMS system works,” said George Panyarachun, professor, Los Angeles Valley College.
“The webinar was recommended to attend for continuing education on our workflow and policies,” said Michelle Campuzano, office manager, Comprehensive Equipment Management Corporation in New York.
“Wanted to learn more about strong workflows, how to build, maintain and assess efficiency. To see how AIMS CMMS can help with workflows in a database,” shared Keith Waters, manager, clinical technology services in Oregon.
For more information, visit WebinarWednesday.live.
