This annual event acknowledges and celebrates the work of biomedical equipment technicians, clinical engineers, and other members of the health care technology management field.
The Healthcare Technology Safety Institute (HTSI), part of the AAMI Foundation, has been awarded the GE Healthcare-AACN Pioneering Spirit Award for its efforts to advance high acuity and critical care nursing regionally and nationally.
The participants agreed with respect to IT infrastructure priorities but diverged in their approaches to addressing the current issues relating to network scalability, executive support, and cloud computing.
By its recertification for the ISO 9001:2008 13485:2003 standards, the company has demonstrated that it consistently provides products that meet customer, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
NovaPACS comes with customizable menus, saved preferences, stat reads, and check-out and e-sign capabilities. In addition, Novarad offers CardioPACS, dose monitoring, mammography viewers, and performance dashboards, among other options.
With the new system, patient data from Philips IntelliVue patient monitors is automatically documented in Heywood's emergency department information system (EDIS), removing the need for nurses to manually document vital signs data.
The 12,000-square-foot facility in Plymouth Meeting, Pa, is dedicated to the production of Siemen's new Acuson Freestyle ultrasound system. The new system features wireless transducer technology.