A duo of clinical engineers, a multidisciplinary team focused on patient safety, three directors at the MedStar Health National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare, and an innovative biomedical services team have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to AAMI’s peer-reviewed journal, BI&T (Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, and its twice-yearly supplement, Horizons.

Robert Dickinson, an independent consultant and globe-trotting healthcare technology management (HTM) leader, has been selected to receive this year’s AAMI Foundation & ACCE’s Robert L. Morris Humanitarian Award.

An impressive lineup of healthcare technology experts and innovators, along with clinicians, patient safety champions, standards developers, young professionals, and students is set to receive an AAMI award or scholarship this year at the association’s popular annual conference.

AAMI’s peer-reviewed journal, BI&T, and its twice-yearly supplement, Horizons, were selected to receive gold awards in a national competition for healthcare publications.

AAMI has released a long-awaited update to a widely used steam sterilization standard for healthcare facilities, offering users a newly formatted resource with fresh guidance that could help them stay in compliance with accrediting bodies.

Industrial sterilization specialists are now able to earn certification credentials from the AAMI Credentials Institute (ACI).

AAMI’s Supportability Task Force has released a tool designed to help healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) work more effectively with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) when considering a medical device for purchase. (Press Release: September 20, 2017)

AAMI members interested in giving back to the healthcare technology management field have the opportunity to join the association’s Technology Management Council and Healthcare Technology Leadership Committee.

Hospitals around the world face potentially costly and devastating risks to their patients and financial bottom line because of the vulnerabilities introduced when medical devices are connected to information technology (IT) networks. Those risks could be significantly mitigated through the application of thoughtful and comprehensive risk management practices, according to a new resource from AAMI that lays out the business case for the use of a series of standards known as 80001.

The AAMI Foundation has established a new annual scholarship in partnership with the Health Systems Engineering Alliance (HSEA) to help build competencies and promote educational opportunities to support the adoption of a systems approach to healthcare technology. The first-ever AAMI-HSEA Health Systems Engineering Scholarship will be presented during the AAMI 2017 Conference & Expo in Austin, TX.

For those looking to join the ranks of the more than 70 certified healthcare technology managers (CHTM) in 2017, AAMI has published a new resource to help guide their exam preparation.

A new special report from AAMI lays out a framework for how the medical device industry and the Food and Drug Administration could embrace a new—and shared—way of thinking when it comes to considering the benefits and risks of products already on the market.

AAMI’s Board of Directors has named Robert D. Jensen, a longtime executive in the healthcare industry, as the association’s third president and CEO.

In a major acknowledgment of the quality of AAMI’s certification programs, three of them have been accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The association’s certifications for biomedical equipment technicians (CBET), laboratory equipment specialists (CLES), and radiology equipment specialists (CRES) were recognized by this widely respected standards body.

The stunning news that a California hospital paid ransom to regain control of its computer systems after a malware attack serves as a stark reminder that healthcare facilities need to take a focused and strategic approach to cybersecurity—and AAMI has the resources to help.

A new white paper drafted by a special AAMI working group lays out six principles—developed jointly by industry and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration—to guide the management of risk of medical devices in the postmarket setting.

Johnson and Johnson (J & J) has donated the published proceedings from past Kilmer Conferences on sterilization of medical products to AAMI, which will make the material available online as a complimentary service to the sterilization community.

AAMI is asking the U.S. government to recognize healthcare technology management as a professional field in its official occupational classifications, as well add “clinical engineer” and “clinical systems engineer” to its roster of job titles.

Determined to set a course for the future, two dozen clinical engineers, biomedical equipment technicians, educators, and other experts are meeting at AAMI headquarters in Arlington, VA, to take on critical issues facing the healthcare technology management (HTM) field.