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Sponsored by Innovatus Imaging By Ted Lucidi, CBET Trans-esophageal echocardiography (TEE) probes. Just saying those terms can sound intimidating. They were to me at one point in my career. As an in-house service engineer for over 20-years, who supported diagnostic ultrasound, I really didn’t understand them. As much experience as I had within ultrasound and the number of OEM training schools I had attended, TEE probes were a topic never really presented and a device type rarely encountered. I can say that the only times that I handled them was when they failed, and it was always a priority to obtain…

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Sponsored by Innovatus Imaging By Ted Lucidi, Clinical, Technical, and Commercial Specialist A simple web search on the term preventive maintenance (PM) results in 171 million results in 0.5 seconds but its definition and how its practice is implemented differs based on many criteria. No doubt, it’s not necessary to take TechNation readers back to HTM 101. Let’s define a PM as routine, scheduled activities designed to minimize unplanned downtime and expensive costs associated with unanticipated failures. PMs on ultrasound systems can vary greatly depending on who is performing the PM and the type of PM program established (traditional or alternative…

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Sponsored by First Health Advisory Comprehensive digital asset risk management must be a top priority for every organization and entity providing health care services regardless of size. The steps described in this article achieve measurable results using active and passive asset discovery technologies in concert with First Health Advisory’s risk management program to materially drive up an organization’s security posture while simultaneously reducing an organization’s cybersecurity risk. The framework of our digital asset risk management program defines a digital asset as any device, equipment or component storing or interacting with digital data using public or private communications. We include network…

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Sponsored by Nuvolo Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: there are many people in healthcare technology management (HTM) that don’t know a lot about protecting medical devices from cyber threats. You may be one of them, and that’s OK. However, that’s no excuse for ignoring the very real cybersecurity risk your hospital and its patients are exposed to every day from your medical devices – aka your operational technology (OT). Ignoring the risks won’t lesson them. The good news is that with the right tools, you don’t have to be a cyber expert to create and manage an…

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