With a curriculum vitae placing her at the summit of healthcare technology leadership in the U.S., Molly Joel Coye, MD, chief innovation officer for UCLA Health System, is well placed to survey the landscape and distinguish the evolving from the endangeredand that means not just technologies but also care-delivery processes.

When SSM Health Care, with 17 hospitals across Wisconsin, Illinois, Oklahoma and Missouri, began integrating EHRs in 2008, clinical engineering (CE) played a big rolein the planning and implementation.

At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, Shigeru Ehara, MD, heard his phone alarm unexpectedly go off. He was working in the radiology department at Iwate Medical University in Morioka, Japan, and discovered the alarm was part of an earthquake alert service, indicating a strong quake had occurred.

Hospitals have been using computerized maintenance management systems (CMMSs) for decades, but the technology has been improving over the years to place a wealth of organizational insight into clinical engineers collective hands.

Following its April go-ahead on Sotera Wireless ViSi mobile monitor, a stand-alone device for continuous observation of vital signs, the FDA has extended the 510(k) approval to the full ViSi system.

The bad news: Almost three-quarters of Americans worry about medical mistakes. The good news: Some 68 percent trust technology to allay their fears.

A look at decision support outside of healthcare offers new insights that are generalizable to healthcare provider decisions, according to research published by Medical Informatics and Decision Making on August 17.

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, has experienced its second data breach this year, this time as a result of a wayward USB thumb drive.