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

AAMI is hosting its second annual HTM Shark Tank during the AAMI Exchange. The event, modeled after ABC's Shark Tank series, will pit innovative ideas for advancing the healthcare technology management (HTM) field against each other to see if they sink or swim.

AAMI and UL have jointly published the first in an expected series of standards intended to help the medical device industry achieve greater success with interoperability.

For more than five decades, AAMI members have led the way in developing, managing, and safeguarding effective health technology. To recognize those who have provided substantial service and contributions to AAMI and the health technology industry as a whole, AAMI has established the AAMI Fellow Program, which is now seeking its first nominees.

AAMI has selected Robert Burroughs, a business leader with 20 years of leadership experience in learning and organizational effectiveness, as its new senior vice president of education.

The use of IT systems to support healthcare delivery promises to make that care more efficient and accessible, and to achieve better patient outcomes. But health IT systems are not without risk—poor design, incorrect configuration, or improper use can hold back this technology’s benefits and create hazards to patient safety and health.

Do you have a question about a standard or practice from The Joint Commission? Now’s your chance to get your questions answered by Kenneth Monroe, director of engineering at TJC, and his team! AAMI is launching a new department in its journal, BI&T, called “Ask The Joint Commission.”

The AAMI Foundation has named the recipients of funding from the Mary K. Logan Research Awards Program for 2018.

The Clinical Engineering Department at The Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) in Victoria, Australia has been named the winner of this year’s best celebration contest for Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) Week for its unique, educational, and fun combination of events.

AAMI has turned to a rising healthcare technology management leader, Danielle McGeary, to serve as its first vice president of HTM, a move that underscores the association’s commitment to the professionals in that field.

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.