See, Protect, and Manage Your Entire Medical Device Fleet
Healthcare Technology Management (HTM), Clinical Engineers, and Biomedical Engineers are responsible for ensuring an always-on, essential service of a hospital environment remains uninterrupted and functioning in the most efficient way possible. This requires maintaining and managing a vast ecosystem of medical devices, tracking their usage, and preventively scheduling any maintenance to avoid disrupting essential patient care, or worse causing harm to patients due to faulty or recalled devices. In an environment where healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs) are fielding more cyber attacks than most other industries, any fault or flaw can have an enormous impact on the organization and individual patients alike. Medical and clinical devices are extremely sensitive, not only due to their specialized nature but also their proximity to patient care. Securing and managing those devices within healthcare environments is essential to ensure the continuity of patient care. Being able to effectively secure these devices maintains all-important uptime, prevents any untimely outages during patient care, and helps cybersecurity teams know these devices are secure and cannot create organizational problems.
Key Challenges for Healthcare Technology Management
53% of medical devices have known vulnerabilities that are still exploited. Legacy medical devices prevent healthcare organizations from meeting security and compliance protocols and digital transformation goals. HTM teams are essential in ensuring maximum efficiency and safety of medical devices to avoid impacts or delays to patient care or disruption to hospital operations, which can ultimately cause harm to patients and the wider organization. Any small hitch in the medical device management process can delay or disrupt patient care, cause disorder throughout the wider organization, and cost precious work hours.