HTM’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,...
Read MoreWhat’s That Noise: Part 3
Troubleshooting noise artifacts in diagnostic ultrasound images This post brings together content from our last 2 posts. This third post will address Troubleshooting noise artifacts in ultrasound images. In What’s That...
Read MoreWhat’s That Noise: Part 2
Root/Cause analysis of noise artifacts in diagnostic ultrasound images Our last post , What’s That Noise: Part 1, discussed the issue of EMI, RFI, environmental noise, whatever your preferred terminology...
Read MoreWhat’s That Noise: Part 1
Noise artifacts in diagnostic ultrasound images Today, we’re surrounded by countless pieces of technology in our everyday lives. Almost every electronic device contains some type of oscillator circuit which has...
Read MoreThe Importance of Periodic Visual Inspections of Ultrasound Probes
You may be surprised to learn that many of the probes evaluated at our Ultrasound Center of Excellence have failed as a result of preventable damage. A significant portion of...
Read MoreData Driven Repair and Your Bottom Line
The pressure is on to get the lowest price and build back the bottom lines lost in 2020. However, there is often a high price to a low cost repair. See how...
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