Everybody knows biomeds and IT don’t get along. Techninjas and Computeniks don’t even speak the same language. Face it, they just don’t like each other. Healthcare technology management (HTM) teams and information technology (IT) teams have a reputation for not playing well together and, as fun as this might be to pull this thread further, the reality is that the cycle must be broken.
Author: TechNation Magazine
Renovo Solutions provides healthcare technology management (HTM) solutions to help reduce costs, increase quality and improve medical equipment performance in healthcare facilities nationwide. It also provides unbiased and objective HTM advice and consulting.
FSI Services, a health care CMMS provider, has launched an online community, The Neighborhood, designed for health care system professionals. The Neighborhood invites collaboration between users to share how they use FSI’s CMMS solution, CMS.
If you had an opportunity to read last month’s article, we provided readers with a series of questions that would help HTM teams qualify their potential choices for repair partners. Questions ranged from 1) “What testing methods are used?” and “How is product performance assessed?” 2) “What mechanical repair capabilities does the provider possess?” 3) “What is the source of replacement parts?” 4) “Are system cables replaced or are they spliced?”
Sometimes the influence of family members and a general sense for what you want to do with your life is just enough to get pointed in a general direction. That was the case for Taylor Dunbar, a clinical engineering specialist at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio.
TechNation asked several companies to share their insights regarding patient monitors for this roundtable article. Those participating in the forum are PM Biomedical Inc. Quality Assurance Manager Alex Chreidah, Tenacore Senior Director Capital Equipment Sales Brad Hejazi, MedEquip Biomedical and MIT Labs President Michael Lipson, Avante Health Solutions Monitor Tech III Ricky Ly, Elite Biomedical Solutions CBET/Biomedical Engineer Tech III Alero Olomajeye, Integrity Biomedical Owner Michele Shahbandeh and USOC Medical Services Director Kevin Wyatt.
Advantus Health Partners, a health care solutions company delivering more effective, efficient supply chain models to health care organizations, and GE HealthCare, one of the largest providers of medical equipment maintenance services in the world, have announced an agreement of up to $760 million over 10-years to provide GE HealthCare’s Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) services to Advantus Health Partners’ clients.
Crothall Healthcare Technology Solutions (HTS) Program Director Codi Nelson, CBET, CHTM, holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and an Associate of Applied Science in Biomedical Equipment Technology.
Whether talking about college sports or the institution’s storied history, the University of Connecticut (UConn) is a stand-out among institutions of higher learning. With its roots going back to the late 1800s, the university is a leader in research and boasts a student population of 32,000.
Elite Biomedical Solutions offers a replacement Front Case for the Philips MX40. Through its rigorous design and development pathway, Elite created a uniquely compatible communication protocol. When the Elite MX40 Front Case is connected to the device, this compatible communication protocol automatically interfaces with the device’s specific printed circuit board.
