Author: TechNation Magazine

In my previous column I wrote about “time compression,” the result of a baptism into the chasm of software technology which remotely affects all aspects of the industry including increasingly lengthy onboarding processes, payroll, human resources and parts acquisition challenges. 

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The U.S. includes many American Indian Tribal Nations. One of these tribal nations is the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The tribe lived in the American Southeast for about 1,800 years. This included present-day Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Most of the Choctaw were forced to relocate to Oklahoma. After settling in Oklahoma, the Choctaw re-established their government by adopting a new constitution. In June 1983, the Choctaws also adopted a new updated constitution with a balance of powers among executive, legislative and judicial branches.

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Staying ahead in the medical field is all about staying informed and up to date on new developments, procedures and processes associated with current technology. From academia to OEMs and ISOs, organizations which are continuously engaged in research and development, design, testing and more can have a proven impact on efficiencies, costs and outcomes. When businesses and academia work together, the results are often multiplied. Sharing Innovatus’ probe repair operations with the next generation of sonographers is making a difference one scan at a time.

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This April, biomedical equipment supplier J2S Medical celebrates ten years in business! Over those years, senior leaders Joe Stem, Jamie Charles, and Sarah Stem have taken the company from a small start-up to a hugely successful operation that occupies two warehouses, as well as an in-house service department which serves customers across the country with high-quality, cost-effective solutions for various types of medical products. 

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Vital signs are crucial in communicating a patient’s condition and severity of a disease to health care clinicians. Patient monitors observe these vital signs continuously and provide warnings in the case of a serious event. It’s important any anomalous vital sign values alert clinicians, and to some extent, provide direct physiological input data to control connected life support devices. 

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Growing up I heard a phrase daily from my family: What did you learn today? … If you didn’t learn anything new, you wasted the day.” Learning and improving are important skills for any professional. As an individual, you always want to grow and become wiser than you were yesterday. The ability to learn and teach others what you know and what you have learned is a very valuable commodity that folks in the healthcare technology management (HTM) community are always willing to share. The HTM community is unique in that they easily check their egos at the door and are always willing to listen and learn from those around them.

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