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Priyanka Upendra: Taking Care of Your Teams (and Yourself) During Challenging Times

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021
  • Management

This year has brought challenges that we never expected would happen. The changing environments and the speed of change has taken us to new levels of perseverance and resilience. Our workloads, dedication to our family […]

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Gavin Stern: A Year of Change

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on December 22, 2020December 22, 2020
  • Featured

The year 2020 has tested us all. For the different health technology fields, the year will forever be remembered as one dominated by COVID-19. There’s no way to describe the virus as anything other than […]

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Mary Ann Drosnock: New Amendments and TIR Coming for ANSI/AAMI ST79

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on October 8, 2020
  • Sterilization

As we all know, the typical standards revision cycle for updating documents can take quite a long time. One very well-known standard, ANSI/AAMI ST79: Comprehensive Guide to Steam Sterilization and Sterility Assurance in Health Care […]

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Axel Wirth: Ransomware-Linked Death Hits Close to Home

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on September 25, 2020September 24, 2020
  • Healthcare IT

By now, I assume that everybody has heard of the cybersecurity incident at the University Clinic in Düsseldorf, Germany, where a ransomware attack crippled the IT system, requiring the diversion of an emergency patient to […]

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Danielle McGeary: What Brings Us Together in These Tough Times

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on September 23, 2020September 23, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

I want to share a personal story about an encounter I had early in my career, retold recently to the University of Connecticut’s Academy of Distinguished Engineers. I vividly remember a call I received 10 […]

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Don Armstrong: Be Like Mike

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on September 16, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

Like a lot of you, I have spent quite a bit of time watching shows during the COVID-19 pandemic. I recently watched The Last Dance series on ESPN, which profiled the domination and greatness of […]

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Matt Dummert: Let’s Collaborate to Create a Health Technology ‘Dream Team’

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on July 28, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

We live in a polarized world, which implies opposing viewpoints and little collaboration and compromise, often expressed by people taking sides on “teams.” Unfortunately, polarization also occurs in the medical device industry. We choose a […]

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Maggie Berkey: How Can Apprenticeships Address the HTM Talent Shortage?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on July 15, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

It’s no secret that the healthcare technology management industry is facing a human resources crisis. Statistics show that 60% of the current workforce is over 52 years of age. At the same time, we are […]

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Danielle McGeary: To the Class of 2020

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on June 25, 2020June 25, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

Recently, AAMI held a virtual graduation reception to honor all the healthcare technology management (HTM) students who had their graduation ceremony cancelled due to COVID-19. On behalf of everyone at AAMI, we want to sincerely […]

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Janice Courtois: What Are You Afraid Of?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on June 24, 2020
  • Healthcare Technology Management

The acronym FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) was introduced to me by my first manager in the biomed field. As a new field service technician, I had tons of doubt about my abilities—enough uncertainty about what […]

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