OBJECTIVE This study presents a conceptual model to investigate the healthcare technology management (HTM) competency required by healthcare IS professionals and the impact of such competency in gaining strategic advantages through information technology (IT) by development of partnerships with people from different divisions of healthcare organizations. METHODS First, a scale to measure HTM ...

Background Low-income countries face many contextual challenges to manage healthcare technologies effectively, as the majority are imported and resources are constrained to a greater extent. Previous healthcare technology management (HTM) policies in Benin have failed to produce better quality of care for the population and costeffectiveness for the government. This study aims to identify and a...

Mechanical ventilator failures expose patients to unacceptable risks, and maintaining mechanical ventilator safety is an important issue. We examined the usefulness of maintaining mechanical ventilators by clinical engineers (CEs) using a specialized calibrator. These evaluations and the ability to make in-house repairs proved useful for obviating the need to rent ventilators which, in turn, mi...

New health technologies enter Canadian healthcare organizations in various ways, and understanding them is essential to the development of a pan-Canadian Health Technology Management (HTM) Strategy, now a priority of governments across Canada. One way is through Health Canada's Medical Devices Special Access Program (MDSAP), which permits unlicensed devices to be obtained by healthcare professi...

Much like the health of the overall economy, salary growth in the healthcare technology management (HTM) field over the past two years has been a mixed bag, according to a 2012 AAMI employment survey. There were a few positive signs with some base salaries rising—with one type of job in particular seeing a significant salary increase—and more fringe benefits. But the salary growth was mostly mo...

BACKGROUND Low-income countries face many contextual challenges to manage healthcare technologies effectively, as the majority are imported and resources are constrained to a greater extent. Previous healthcare technology management (HTM) policies in Benin have failed to produce better quality of care for the population and costeffectiveness for the government. This study aims to identify and a...

About the Author Stephanie Stephens, MA, is a freelance writer, producer, and multimedia expert. Early in his career, Paul Kelley, like many other biomedical equipment technicians, struggled to understand the benefits of professional certification. " People who were certified weren't always the cream of the crop, " Kelley, who started in 1979 and now is director of biomedical engineering and gr...

RCM: Tool for Optimizing Device Maintenance 2016 After many years of inconclusive discussions about the role of planned (or what has traditionally been referred to as preventive) maintenance (PM) in keeping medical equipment safe, the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) announced its support for a new project in October 2015. The association stated that it would be...

Similar to fine-grained locking, and lock-free programming, memory management poses challenges to programming systems with hardware transactional memory (HTM). Thus, scalable data structures need to integrate a memory management scheme, such as hazard pointers, repeated offender, reference counting, and StackTrack. In this paper, we revisit epochs, another popular memory management technique, a...