The 2015 CABMET Symposium will be better than ever with great networking events, an exhibit hall, exceptional classes and its signature family-friendly banquet.
Author: TechNation Staff
With the advancement of technology in the design and integration of medical devices, health care personnel have obtained the needed resources to better patient care. With this advancement, new vulnerabilities have been brought to light making it necessary for the clinical engineering profession to evolve and develop new techniques and assessment.
In 2012, Luis Melendez agreed to author a guide that would explain medical device integration for professionals in the field. The ambitious compendium, titled “Medical Device Integration and Informatics” is now available as a free resource from the AAMI website.
MedWrench.com is a resource and sharing network for users of medical equipment. You can get answers, find information and read what others think about the equipment they use. It is free to join and easy to keep informed. You simply bookmark your favorite communities (equipment, categories, or manufactures) to your “My Bench” area and you are given an intelligent feed of information from other professionals as they help each other solve problems.
The biomedical field was a complete unknown to me before I began my search for a new and exciting career path. I learned of its existence while visiting Brown Mackie College (BMC) almost two years ago and I was immediately intrigued! It simply never occurred to me that there were people who specialized in medical equipment repair or metrology.
A pioneer in its field, Perkins Healthcare Technologies provides solutions focused on improving integration, workflow efficiency and extending the useful life of existing capital equipment. True system neutrality and backward/forward compatibility are key elements of the company’s approach. As a result more and more hospitals are turning to Perkins.
Can you conceive of Super HTM man or woman? I mean, can you create a mental image of what that superhero might look like and then put it on paper? It takes a special talent to clearly conceive of an image in your head and then bring it to life on a sketchpad.
Do you consider yourself a history buff? Are you widely regarded among coworkers as an equipment aficionado? Here is your chance to prove it!
I have a request from a director on record storage of service reports. How long should the service records be kept? The device in question has been out of service for 7 years and has been removed from the building.

