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 […]
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 […]
June will be very significant to me this year. It will mark the end of my AAMI volunteer leadership duties. It will be bittersweet. I will be rotating off of the AAMI Board of Directors […]
Postmarket surveillance plays a vital role in the product life cycle as it serves to monitor the safety and effectiveness of medical devices in use on the market. An important aspect of postmarket surveillance is […]
I was recently inspired by Dr. Konkani’s AAMIBlog post, “Applying User Experience and Design Thinking to Medical Device Design.” The importance of implementing, iterating, and continuously improving medical devices is vital to the health and […]
Our awareness of the medical device security problem has been increasing over the past 12 years. For all practical matters, the event that put it on the map for most of us was an IEEE […]
Many of us have been going through transitions lately. Whether planned or out-of-the-blue, transitions are a part of life and we all go through them more than we recognize. I’m in the middle of multiple […]
In addition to established policies, our team has implemented additional precautions against COVID-19. The main objective is to minimize exposure to personnel and decrease traffic in and out of the shop. Upon arriving at work. Wash […]
As the number of people hospitalized with Coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to rise, healthcare technology management (HTM) departments will play an increasingly critical role in addressing this crisis and its strain on the healthcare system. Here […]
For those of you who have Bluetooth devices in your hospitals and in your daily life (probably all of you), you probably were quite interested by a recent FDA communication regarding the “Sweyntooth” vulnerability. Now […]
