2012 Issues |
 Horizons: Mobile Health
Mobile Health examines the latest practices and challenges in mobile health and wireless medical devices, as well as offering advice and practical tips frommanufacturers, regulators, clinicians, and wireless experts.
 Horizons: Sterilization and Reprocessing
There is increasing concern that inadequately reprocessed devices are responsible for a host of hospital-acquired infections. “Sterilization and Reprocessing--A Matter of Patient Safety” offers the latest practices, expert advice, and practical tips from manufacturers, regulators, clinicians, sterile processing experts, and other healthcare technology professionals.
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2011 Issues |
Horizons: Managing Medical Devices on the IT Network
The challenges of managing medical devices on wired and wireless IT networks is the subject of this issue of Horizons. It focuses on helping healthcare organizations and medical device manufacturers ensure that their networks and products are secure, reliable, cost-effective, and positioned for future success.
Horizons: Improving Medical Alarm Systems
 Medical alarm systems warn of danger by alerting caregivers to critical medical information. They also frequently malfunction or are turned off, ignored, or unheard, earning a top spot on lists of the most frequent and serious problems seen with devices. How can the safety and effectiveness of alarms be improved?
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2010 Issues |
Human Factors Horizons
 Human factors engineering is concerned with understanding the interactions among humans and other elements of a system. How can the principles of human factors be used to improve the design, use, and management of medical devices? How can we reduce medical errors and increase patient safety by improving the interface between healthcare practitioners and medical technology?
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Home Healthcare Horizons
 The combination of an aging population and increasingly sophisticated, easy-to-use medical equipment has led to an explosion of home and other non-hospital-based healthcare. As devices are migrating away from the controlled environment into the homecare environment, how will these devices—and the data they generate—be developed, managed and maintained?
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IT Horizons, 2010 & earlier editions
 The 5th edition of IT Horizons, published in early 2010, examines the advancements and challenges that information technology has brought to the medical technology professions. Along with the four previous editions, this series has become an essential learning tool and reference guide for medical technology professionals.
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2009 Issues |
Imaging Horizons
 Imaging Horizons a special, one-time magazine focused exclusively on imaging-related issues. Published in June 2009, it examines the advancement and challenges that imaging technology has brought to the medical technology professions.
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2008 and earlier editions |
Future Horizons
 This special publication examines the future of medical technology and the healthcare profession. This one-time publication explores the technology, product, and policy advancements that will shape the future of the healthcare technology field.
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Healthcare Sterilization Horizons
 AAMI and OR Manager joined forces to develop a special publication called Healthcare Sterilization Horizons. Released in 2008, this publication shares the expertise of sterilization specialists with all healthcare professionals.
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Healthcare Technology Horizons
These collections of timely and practical articles are of mutual interest to clinical engineers, biomedical equipment technicians, and nurses. Written by experts in the field, these articles provide practical and timely guidance on issues facing medical technology professionals around the world.
The second edition was developed by AAMI in cooperation with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN).
 In the first edition of Healthcare Technology Horizons, AAMI teamed up with the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN).
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Hemodialysis Horizons
 In 2006, AAMI published Hemodialysis Horizons: Patient Safety & Approaches to Reducing Errors. Circulated to more than 20,000 hemodialysis professionals and available on-line, this special resource focuses on issues of central
importance. Hemodialysis Horizons is designed as a useful resource for medical equipment
technicians; clinical engineers; medical, technical, and clinical
staff of hemodialysis facilities; and many others including manufacturers,
regulators, and patients.
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