From the August 2017 issue of HealthCare Business News magazine
Like most health care technology, proactive monitoring is constantly advancing. Manufacturers are looking to extend the capability to additional diagnostic modalities where avoidance of unplanned downtime has substantial value. UnityPoint Health looks forward to a day when proactive monitoring becomes more universally available and deployed. In the health care industry, we all want our capital equipment to perform at its highest level for as long as possible to serve our populations and our communities.
As we face the challenge of optimizing care in a consumer-driven environment, we still have work to do. For device manufacturers and clinical engineering teams the question is: How do we embrace the monitoring technology that is available and put those platforms to optimum use?
About the author: Greg Doherty is executive director of clinical asset management with UnityPoint Health in Des Moines, Iowa.Back to HCB News
