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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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William Hyman: Do ‘Safety Platitudes’ Increase Safety?

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on July 19, 2018
  • Healthcare Technology Management

Sometimes, there can be a gap between safety efforts and the actual achievement of measurable safety. That may arise because official safety efforts are not addressing real problems, the safety efforts are not effective, or […]

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Mary Logan: Welcome to the New AAMIBlog!

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on February 28, 2012November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare Technology Management

I always learn something from listening to other people’s insights and occasionally have a few of my own to share, so I’m excited we are creating this new venue for starting—or continuing—conversations, sharing, and learning. […]

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Malcolm Ridgway: CMS and Preventive Maintenance

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on February 28, 2012November 2, 2018
  • Healthcare Technology Management

The controversy generated by the Dec. 2, 2011 “clarification” memo from CMS to the state survey agency directors has made me stop and think about just what kind of a job we, as a professional […]

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Doug Martin: Variety of Support Models

  • by AAMI
  • Posted on February 28, 2012March 22, 2012
  • Healthcare IT

As Carilion Clinic has continued to move forward on securing and supporting medical devices with our standardized model, we also have identified an issue we should have addressed as part of the process. Medical devices […]

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