Key ideas at a glance
| Topic | What it is | What to check |
|---|---|---|
| Device lifecycle | Every stage from selection to retirement | Asset records, service history and disposal records |
| Preventive maintenance | Scheduled work that prevents failure | The schedule, the procedure and the completed record |
| Patient safety | Harm avoided, detected or reduced | Reported incidents and the changes made after them |
| Connected-device security | Protecting networked medical equipment | Inventory, network rules and the patching plan |
| Standards and rules | The agreed requirements practice follows | The current edition of the standard or regulation |
| Sterile processing | Cleaning, disinfection and sterilization | Validated procedures and monitoring results |
Healthcare Technology Management All →
What Is Healthcare Technology Management?
The discipline that keeps medical equipment safe, available and traceable across a whole organisation.
Managing a Medical Device Inventory
Building an asset register you can actually trust, and keeping it accurate as equipment moves.
Building a Preventive Maintenance Schedule
Deciding what to service, how often and how to prove that the work was done.
Patient Safety All →
Human Factors in Medical Device Design
Why good devices fit the way people really work, and how use errors are designed out rather than blamed on users.
Alarm Fatigue and Patient Safety
How too many alerts become background noise, and the practical ways teams reduce the load without hiding real warnings.
Reporting Device-Related Incidents
What counts as a reportable event, how to describe it usefully and what happens to the information afterwards.
From the industry All industry articles →
From Prototype to Market
The work between a working model and a device that can be sold and supported responsibly.
Post-Market Surveillance Explained
How real-world use feeds back into design, labelling and safety communication.
Interoperability in Healthcare Technology
Why devices and systems must exchange information reliably, and what breaks when they cannot.
The Healthcare Technology Workforce
Why skilled device and sterile-processing staff are in short supply, and what makes people stay.
All articles
Deciding When to Replace Medical Equipment
Signals that repair is no longer the better answer, and how to plan replacement before failure forces it.
Infusion Pumps and Safety by Design
Why infusion devices attract so much safety attention, and the layers that reduce programming and delivery errors.
Securing Connected Medical Devices
The baseline controls that protect networked equipment without getting in the way of clinical work.
Network Segmentation for Medical IT
Why flat networks are risky, and how to separate medical devices sensibly and safely.