Paul Kelley: A Bittersweet Goodbye
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 […]
Daugherty & Liebel: Classifying Medical Device Human Factors Issues for the MAUDE and Recall Databases
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 […]
Micah Bongberg: What Can Amazon Teach Us About AEDs?
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 […]
Axel Wirth & Vidya Murthy: The Next Imperative in Medical Device Cybersecurity
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 […]
Donald Armstrong: Transitions Are Exciting—and Scary
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 […]
Jovito Gonzales: Essential Precautions for the Coronavirus Pandemic
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 […]
Heidi Horn: Coronavirus Actions All HTM Professionals Need to Take
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 […]
Bill Saltzstein: ‘Sweyntooth’ Demystified
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 […]
Rob Jensen: Health Technology Innovation Is Vital to the Future of Healthcare
We are on the cusp of major change in the health technology field, and those who do not innovate are on a path of becoming irrelevant. Our members understand the need to demonstrate resiliency in […]
Avinash Konkani: Applying User Experience and Design Thinking to Medical Device Design
User Experience (UX) and design thinking can be applied in every stage of the product design, development, marketing, and postmarket surveillance. UX is critical to make sure the product is designed to meet the end-user’s […]
