Webinar Calendar

Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

X-ray tube arcing can cause image artifacts and system damage. Understanding its causes and how to prevent them can help you increase uptime and get the most out of your CT scanners. In this webinar, you will learn about how arcing (high-voltage discharges in X-ray tubes) affects your CT scanner. We will discuss the most important components and technologies impacting arcing, and introduce the physics and material science behind this phenomenon. We’ll help you understand how to prevent arcing and how to mitigate the effects of an arcing incident. And you’ll gain understanding about how to assess equipment and technology in terms of how they impact arcing. Join us for this 60-minute, in-depth analysis of one of CT scanning’s most persistent yet unpredictable problems, featuring Rolf Behling, founder and owner of XtraininX.

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Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

Leveraging technology to connect hospital support functions improves efficiencies, ensures regulatory compliance, lowers costs and enables better patient care. The convergence of HTM, Facilities, IT and Supply Chain helps hospitals improve the care of their patients, while streamlining and simplifying work. This 60-minute webinar – moderated by Nuvolo’s Heidi Horn, Vice President, Global Enablement-Healthcare, and featuring Kyle Holetz and Dustin Smith, Senior Solutions Consultants – will describe specific healthcare scenarios where using a connected healthcare software system assists healthcare support organizations to better work together. During the webinar, we will showcase some of the advanced capabilities in Nuvolo’s Connected Workplace system that optimizes clinical device maintenance and coordinates support activities. Please join us to see how you can improve operational performance at your healthcare organization and drive departmental collaboration for the business.

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Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

This 60-minute webinar will feature Matt Tomory, Vice President of Ultrasound Center of Excellence, at Innovatus Imaging. When it comes to imaging devices, little things go a long way. And not always in the right direction. A little slip of the hands could cause trauma to a TEE probe, and according to years of data from first-hand experience and researching common failures, trauma is one of the leading reasons for costly repair services. In this session, attendees will learn to identify the little changes to the daily routines of cross-functional teams that can have a big impact on lowering costs associated with downtime and repairs. They will learn to identify opportunities for improvement, establish goals, metrics, checkpoints and work with end-users to take routine processes to a new level.

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Monday, July 27, 2020, 12:00pm EST

Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

Presented by Carol Davis-Smith, President, Carol Davis-Smith & Associates, LLC

In this session, we will explore how the COVID-19 pandemic has or could impact strategic technology planning going forward. We will clarify what strategic technology planning is and is not, then review the process steps and leading practices so HTM professionals can initiate or enhance the strategic technology planning process within their organization.

The session should be immediately applicable to supervisors, managers, directors, and other management roles. Staff (individual contributors) may also find this session helpful in becoming stronger contributors to the HTM department’s success. Those individuals seeking to advance into management roles will find the session useful in developing perspective and skills that will support career growth.

Tuesday, July 28, 2020, 12:00pm EST

Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

This panel discussion will feature leaders from across the healthcare technology management arena to address how C-19 has impacted them, their departments, their facilities, and their communities as a whole. They will share the hurdles they’ve faced, but also the triumphs they’ve celebrated, and their insights on the aftermath of this pandemic. Questions from attendees are welcome and will be addressed by the panel participants:

Christopher G. Nowak, CBET, CHP, CSCS, Senior Director, Healthcare Technology Management, UHS of Delaware, Inc.

Jennifer DeFrancesco, DHA, MS, CHTM, System Director, Clinical Engineering, University of Cincinnati Health

Michael Heusser, MS, CCE, Clinical Engineering Manager, Middlesex Health

Mike Busdicker, CHTM, FACHE, System Director, Clinical Engineering, Intermountain Continuum of Care

Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 12:00pm EST

Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

Presented by Izabella Gieras, Director, Clinical Technology, Huntington Hospital

All medical device systems will experience downtimes, whether planned or unplanned. With the proliferation of medical device integration and interconnectivity, the downtimes can have a significant impact not just on one system, one application, but on a multitude of systems, hospital-wide. Careful planning, which includes seamless communication as well as practical policies and procedures, and sound change management, supports smooth downtime planning, when scheduled and facilitates minimal impact on clinical and non-clinical operations, when unplanned. Additionally, the presenter will speak to the collaborative approach within a multidisciplinary team that needs to be involved in such planning.

Thursday, July 30, 2020, 12:00pm EST

Certification: Eligible for 1 CE credit from the ACI

Presented by David Yaeger, Biomed Security Administrator, and Rob Bundick, Director HTM and Biomedical Engineering, ProHealth Care

At the conclusion of this presentation, attendees will have an understanding of how to get started in creating a cybersecurity program in their own facilities, and if a program is already in place, how to keep progress moving forward for a secure and protected facility.