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Program Topics

The following are broad topic areas that you may consider for presentations. However, your topic or presentation idea need not be limited to these areas. We invite you to provide us with your ideas.

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"The Big Picture" — View on the future of healthcare technology management, trends affecting the industry and how best to address them, new areas of opportunity on the horizon for the field, developments in other related fields that will affect biomed an clinical engineering, hospital administration views on clinical engineering and biomed programs and projects.

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Business & Management — Principles of management that apply to the biomedical or clinical technology functions in healthcare facilities, such as financial planning, personnel management, retention and hiring practices, contractual relationships with medical technology manufacturers, intra- and interdepartmental relationship building, communications, human resource management, strategic planning, decision making processes, supervisory challenges and solutions, internal advocacy programs, or training programs.

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Technical Operations & Support — Service and support of medical technologies; challenges and resolutions encountered while servicing and supporting medical technologies.

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Patient Safety — Current patient safety issues; managing patient safety in your organization.

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Information Technology — Impact of IT on the clinical aspects of healthcare (software-based devices, HIPPA); ways clinical engineers and biomedical technicians are adapting to the IT evolution and incorporating IT into their educational and professional experiences; ways to effectively support IT.

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Imaging — Diagnostic imaging hardware and software; ways healthcare technology professionals are adapting to new imaging devices and/or applications; ways to effectively support imaging technologies.