Earlier this year, I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, for the MD Expo. It was the 20th anniversary of the Expo. It was also one of the first expos in quite a while without COVID-19 restrictions... Read more

There has been a rapid evolution between the world of healthcare technology management (HTM) and information technologies (IT). Read more

On April 30, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published an interim final rule (IFR) that made regulatory changes and clarified certain policies in response to the n... Read more

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 warnin... Read more

Clinical engineering and the entire healthcare technology management (HTM) community has been faithfully and obediently measuring medical device leakage currents since its beginnings over 50... Read more

In the daily fast-paced health care environment, clinical and biomedical staff often struggle to find equipment for patient care and preventive maintenance. Read more

Balanced around safety, HRO is the concept that above all other aspects of operations, safety comes first. In health care that means patient safety comes first above all else. Read more

In 2019, young professionals at MD Publishing (YP at MD) came together to work on building a networking group in the HTM industry. The goal was to build a community of individuals who were u... Read more

By Joe Fishel, CBET The task of measuring productivity in the HTM world has been a cause for discussion over the years and continues even today. How it should be calculated is often a lively... Read more

By Mike Chuma Fifty years ago, I started in the field of biomed in the United States Air Force when it was called medical maintenance with about 400 people in the field. Today, there are an... Read more