IT Horizons, 2006

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IT + TRENDS

• Health IT Czar Focuses on Interoperability
• Study: Improvements Cut Interference with Medical Equipment
• Teleconsultations Reach Out to Outlying Communities

PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS

• Issues to Consider When Rolling Out Point-of-Care Technology
• How to Choose the Right Clinical Engineering Software
• Telemedicine Program Delivers Healthcare Services Far and Wide
• Eight Steps to Integrating Security Standards
• Tagging the Issues Surrounding Auto-ID Labels
• Portable Analysis Tools Help Solve Networking Problems

WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY

• Managing Your Wireless Spectrum...Making Wireless Technology Work in Your Hospital
• Lessons Learned...Interference to Wireless Medical Telemetry Systems
• Evaluating EMI in a Multi-Hospital Facility
• Growth of Wireless Technology in Healthcare Institutions

TECH TOOLBOX

• Virtual Handshake...Get to Know Your Home and Enterprise Networks

In this third edition of IT Horizons, professionals from the field share their expertise on issues ranging from wireless spectrum management and the evaluation of electromagnetic interference to how to choose the right clinical engineering software.

We hope this publication, published by AAMI, provides you and your colleagues with the information to help keep you up-to-date with issues medical technology professionals are faced with due to the rapid advancement of medical technology.

We thank members of AAMI's Technology Management Council (TMC) and the following biomedical society sponsors for their support and guidance in preparing this publication.