Soft training that can save your budget
It’s a given that your service team needs ongoing, specialized in-depth training on maintaining and troubleshooting the devices you have in your imaging departments. However, sometimes the soft training, training...
Read More5-Rules for Testing Ultrasound Image Quality
Recently, a customer reached out for some tech support for troubleshooting an image quality complaint from one of his sonographers. He had only just started supporting ultrasound and wanted some...
Read MoreVisual Inspection of Ultrasound Probes
Anywhere from 30% – 40% of ALL ultrasound probes, in-use at ANY moment, require some level of repair. I can say that with firm confidence after visiting hundreds of customer sites and assessing well...
Read MoreWhat’s Inside Matters
If we’ve learned anything over the years, that applies to the Right to Repair issue that we now face relative to a repair, is WHAT’S INSIDE MATTERS. Back in 1991, Intel Corporation began...
Read MoreThe High Cost of Low Price
Remember that great deal you got on that shirt that wasn’t the same after washing it once? Well the same thing can happen with imaging device repairs. That repair you...
Read MoreHTM’s Role in Ultrasound Accreditation
How Accreditation for Imaging Departments Affects Your Facility, Your Patients, and You The importance of being ISO 13485:2016 certified has been a popular topic in the medical device service industry...
Read MoreAccess is Key
It’s not about access to more equipment, additional repair services, or even increased budgets to gear up for another episode of the unknown. It’s about greater access to the parts you...
Read MoreProcesses, Procedures, and Work Instructions
When a company documents its Quality Management Systems (QMS), it must clearly define what it’s doing (Processes) or what its Procedures are to achieve the promised outcomes. How a company’s staff are expected...
Read MoreLifecycle of an Ultrasound Probe
Ultrasound transducers are highly complex, Class ll medical devices we see all the time on television, in print ads, and, of course, healthcare facilities. Have you ever given thought to...
Read MoreThe Secret to Extending Coil Longevity is Often Just Down the Hall
Our last post focused on strategies that HTM professionals could use to extend the lifecycle of their MRI coils. This post is on end-user contributions that can affect uptime. As...
Read More4-Best Practices For Maximizing MRI Coil Longevity
As an imaging service engineer in the hospital setting for many years of my career, I know the search for reliable methodologies, partners, and practices for extending the life of...
Read More4-Criteria for Vendor Qualification
So many choices…What repair partner should you choose, and why should they be chosen? In the past, health care facilities used terms such as biomedical engineering and clinical engineering. These,...
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