In this white paper, MITA addresses how cyber threats pose a significant risk to patient safety and clinical and business continuity.
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Healthcare Technology Management professionals cannot do their job without test equipment. Testing and maintaining medical devices is as much a part of the job as repairing life-saving devices. Of course, that means having the right testing equipment is just as important as having the right tools. We reached out to industry experts to find out the latest about test equipment and what features to search out when upgrading.
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Datrend Systems is a technological leader in the design and development of biomedical test instrumentation. Datrend’s philosophy is to design and develop products utilizing state of the art technology that will help biomeds and field service engineers increase throughput, improve traceability and improve documentation.
Infusion system safety, a subject of intense interest for medical device manufacturers, clinicians, regulators, healthcare technology experts, and patient safety advocates, is the focus of the newly released issue of AAMI’s award-winning Horizons magazine. The concepts and approaches of articles featured in the fall 2015 issue include the following:
TechNation wants to know what’s on your bench! We are looking to highlight the workbenches of HTM professionals around the country. Send a high-resolution photo along with your name, title and where you work and you could be featured in the What’s On Your Bench? page and win a FREE lunch for your department. To submit your photos email them to info@medwrench.com.
Whatever flavor of technician or service engineer you are, knowing how to conduct a Root Cause Analysis can improve patient safety and build your reputation with key customers. Biomedical technicians, imaging service engineers, sterilizer technicians, and so on can use a simplified version of RCA (Root Cause Analysis) to reduce preventable damage caused by end-users repeating the same mistakes, evaluate safety risks with medical device systems after an incident or near miss, and even analyze risks before a problem occurs.
Is telehealth – or telemedicine – finally about to break free of the return-on-investment concerns that hobbled its use? After all, many hospitals have been participating in a telestroke program either as a hub or a spoke member of a network for some time. Grant-funded services to improve rural health care have been operating for years, and remote services provided to the incarcerated is another well-developed program. At the same time, information software and hardware developments have spawned remarkable advances in monitoring technologies.
