By Chuck Overeem Equipment disposition is the process by which equipment is removed from use and physically removed from a hospital or clinic. There are several reasons to remove equipment.... Read more

By Gus Guevara, CHTM Over my career spanning more than three decades in healthcare technology management, I’ve learned a thing or two. One thing I’ve learned is that proper management of you... Read more

By Kathleen Licht and Chelsea Schoen For the past decade, the looming retirement crisis for BMETs has been at the forefront of the industry’s mind. It is apparent that there are multiple way... Read more

By Kevin J. Hutcherson, CHTM, CBET A nurse from the intensive care unit calls frantically because they have a critical patient on life support and their central station is not receiving pati... Read more

By Joie N. Marhefka, Ph.d Biomedical engineering technology students at Penn State New Kensington are required to complete a 400-hour internship before graduating. As an educator, I work wit... Read more

There is no shortage of professional conferences for HTM professionals. Whether you consider yourself to be a clinical engineer, a biomed or an HTM professional conferences have a lot to off... Read more

By Inhel Rekik Cloud computing is currently very on trend and represents an important shift in the way businesses think about IT resources. It’s not uncommon today for HTM departments to pur... Read more

In general when a person talks about biomeds they will say that they are a great team that are technically savvy and always happy to “tinker” away on any medical device of concern. In the pa... Read more

By Dallas Sutton As a rule, at that certain time of the year (depending on your organization’s evaluation cycle), we all get the opportunity to reflect on goals. Whether it be the previous y... Read more

By Dan McMartin According to the FDA, up to 50 percent of service calls in hospitals surveyed are battery-related issues. Your hospital or clinic relies heavily on battery-powered medical de... Read more