HTM’s Role in Ultrasound Accreditation
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 for several years. It has moved closer to the forefront of discussions in the Right-To-Repair movement. Organizations that commit to the rigorous and costly process […]
Access 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 need when you need them to keep your current devices running at top performance. This might seem like a simple reality we already enjoy, but it’s […]
Processes, 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 perform the procedures are referred to as Work Instructions. 3-critical aspects to maintaining consistent quality control are Processes, Procedures, and Work Instructions. Recently I had the […]
Lifecycle 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 how they are designed, manufactured, tested and repaired? Let’s take a look at the lifecycle of an ultrasound probe. Innovatus Imaging maintains two facilities dedicated […]
4-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, once small, departments have since evolved. Now they can span entire health care enterprises and come complete with their own supply chains. Service decisions once […]
What’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 Noise: Part 1, we explored how excessive RF energy in the vicinity of an ultrasound study can affect image quality (typically during color Doppler imaging) […]
What’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 and how it can negatively affect image quality in 2D and color Doppler ultrasound studies. Since 2000, Innovatus Imaging has successfully repaired over 195,000 ultrasound probes. As […]
What’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 the potential to affect the electro-magnetic spectrum. Call it Electro-Magnetic Interference (EMI), Radio-Frequency Interference (RFI), or environmental/atmospheric noise. I recently read an article that classified […]
The 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 those probes have experienced failures as a result of indirect chemical or fluid intrusion at the scan head. Most would agree that no one would […]
Data 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 data driven repair can affect your bottom line. In some cases, low price comes with a high number of subsequent repairs that in short order […]
