By Ted Lucidi, CBET In the past, health care facilities used terms such as biomedical engineering and clinical engineering. These, once small, departments have evolved and now can span entire health care enterprises and come complete with their own supply chains. Service decisions once made by individual technicians are now guided by large cross-functional teams. We now refer to these highly specialized departments as healthcare technology management (HTM). HTM has become big business and there are thousands of suppliers ready, willing and able to assist. The questions are, whom should I choose and why should they be chosen. Each supplier,…
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Sponsored by Nuvolo The Risk Scoring System for Medical Devices (RSS-MD) provides a methodology to catalog critical vulnerabilities and numerically score the potential severity of a failure with any clinical device. The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) published an Alternative Equipment Maintenance (AEM) guidebook in 2018 that recommended a risk scoring methodology that is now also being used to identify a medical device’s overall risk for potentially causing staff and patient harm. The two main components of this methodology include the probability of functional failure multiplied by the severity of the consequences for that harm. The scoring…
Sponsored by Total Scope, Inc. The endoscopy room should provide a comfortable, safe environment for patients and staff. Maintaining the patient’s safety, privacy, and dignity while performing a successful procedure is of the utmost importance. The layout of the endoscopy room should allow for the efficient flow of patients, staff and supplies. Having the tools and equipment you need on hand is essential to ensure optimal efficiency, productivity, cost containment, and most importantly patient safety. In the endoscopy room, there are many tools and equipment that help ensure a safe, successful procedure. Total Scope has prepared this whitepaper, 6 Tools…
AtmosAir is excited to announce the release of a new whitepaper from Terrapin Bright Green, a leading green building consultancy. Aptly titled “The Nature of Air: Economic and bio-inspired perspectives on indoor air quality management,” the paper highlights the latest research on indoor environmental quality and its effects on sustainability and health and wellbeing.
By John Pollard, Regional Director of Northern California at Tech Knowledge Associates It’s a job with a promising future. One that welcomes all ages and stages – from young people starting careers to mid-career professionals looking for a change. It’s a job focused on maintaining critical skills and building new ones. An exciting job that’s different every day. And a job that makes a real difference. Sound too good to be true? It’s not! Being a biomed tech is all this – and more! – making it one of the very best jobs on the planet, in my humble opinion,…
By Ted Lucidi, CBET You may be surprised to learn that many of the probes evaluated at our Ultrasound Center of Excellent have failed as a result of damage that may be considered fully preventable. A significant portion of those probes have experienced failures as a result of indirect chemical or fluid intrusion at the scan head. Most would agree that no one would ever purposely expose an ultrasound probe to damaging chemicals or somehow allow fluid to gain access to delicate electronics. The truth is that items such as seams, seals, acoustic lenses and strain reliefs will experience wear…
Armed with a passion for repurposing, recycling, donation, and respect for the medical industry professionals who provide life-changing care through technology, Mimi and Tony Lively started ZRG Medical in 2013. Today, ZRG provides tailored asset disposition services for hospitals and health care facilities that want their surplus equipment to have a second life. By reselling, renting, donating, and responsibly recycling medical equipment they can keep these lifesaving devices out of landfills and give them a new life where they are needed. ZRG Medical is also Certified Women Owned by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). Sustainability • Diversity • …
The healthcare industry is going through a huge digital transformation with the Internet of Things (IoT).
Sponsored by Elite Biomedical Solutions The Shield You Know. The Shield You Trust. It was a Monday morning. Rumors had been transpiring for weeks leading up. Experts had warned. Whispers raised questions, “What is going to happen?” “Is this true?” Just as the first morning coffee was poured, the executive team was called for a meeting. News of COVID-19 had infiltrated the U.S. health care industry. Hospitals buckled down and Elite customers called in. As the Elite executive team met, it was apparent what needed to be done. A Call to Action A plan centered around both the state of…
