| AAMI's award-winning Horizons publications, mailed twice each year to AAMI members, and distributed at various professional forums, provide in-depth, practical articles on specific topics of interest to the medical technology community, such as home healthcare, human factors engineering, and alarm systems. |
Horizons: Managing Medical Devices on the IT Network, 2011
 Hospitals are facing unprecedented challenges managing their wired and wireless networks. Device makers are struggling to provide products that work in a wide range of environments. How can they ensure that their networks and products are secure, reliable, cost-effective, and positioned for future success?
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Spring 2012 Horizons: Reprocessing of Reusable Medical Devices
 Every link in the healthcare chain plays a vital role in the sterilization
of medical devices and all must work together to ensure
patient safety. Even as regulators are increasing their focus
on the reprocessing of reusable medical devices, hospitals are
facing Medicare non-payment for “preventable” conditions
such as hospital-acquired infections.
This issue of Horizons will offer
you the latest practices, expert advice, and practical tips from
manufacturers, regulators, clinicians, sterile processing experts,
and other healthcare technology professionals.
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Fall 2012 Horizons:
Mobile Health
 Mobile health, or mHealth, uses mobile technologies
like cellphones, smartphones, tablet computers, and
personal digital assistants as platforms for health research,
education, and health delivery. These technologies—and
the healthcare applications that run on them—promise to
dramatically change the delivery of healthcare, with potential
for ultimately improving clinical outcomes and lowering
costs. What do these trends mean for those who develop,
implement, manage, and use medical devices?
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