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Thought Leader: HTM Infection Control Awareness – Stop! Listen up!

TechNation Magazine — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 11:48:14 +0000

By Alan Moretti As you read this month’s column it is this time of year when the “Influenza (Flu) season” is at its high peak and “oh so many” wished they would have taken the time to get that preventive flu shot inoculation many weeks back. For those affected with the seasonal “flu bug”, hang [...]

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Thought Leader: “Eyes 360”

Al Moretti — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 12:30:28 +0000

Throughout my career working within hospitals, a very important skill that I acquired early and have honed during my HTM tenure is what can I call “Eyes 360.” It is a highly reliant skill and in many ways it is a tool of instinct.

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Thought Leader: FDA Please Pave The Way

Al Moretti — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:45:39 +0000

By Alan Moretti Recently I sat in as a “listener” to a conversation that had a round able of HTM industry representatives chatting as to their “ongoing challenges and hurdles” in being able to reasonably acquire service keys, codes and what some may say is “proprietary information.” This discussion is not a new topic and [...]

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Thought Leader: Medical Device “Drones” Are On The Way – Part III

Al Moretti — Wed, 01 Jun 2016 20:46:56 +0000

By Alan Moretti With the April 2016 awarded patent to Google for its “dispatching” drone technology that is enabled through an “emergency intercom” type mechanism, these “angels of medical device transport” will now swoop down from above on demand with critically needed medical devices. You may recall my writing on this visionary concept about 18 [...]

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Farewell Computed Radiography(CR) – R.I.P

Al Moretti — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 13:46:52 +0000

“Technology break-through” can be both revolutionary and earth shattering though in the same sense fleeting. The basis which drives the science behind any technology breakthrough is always to enable improvement to perhaps a function or a process.

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Are Some HTM Strategies a Square Peg – Round Hole?

Al Moretti — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 13:50:17 +0000

Over the length of my HTM career, which now spans into its 31st year –where has the time gone. I have heard and seen many HTM service models and “best practices” that on paper sound great though when presented to the clinical customer – depending on their interest and open mind can tend to “crash and burn”.

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AEM – A FLOUNDERING STRATEGY

Al Moretti — Mon, 04 Jan 2016 13:25:45 +0000

As we have leaped into this exciting New Year of 2016, the anticipation in some circles of the HTM community is this may be the time “Alternative Equipment Maintenance” (AEM) strategies will finally be that proven method. Listening to many in-house groups and some outsourcing vendors these past few years who have been “banking” on [...]

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Ch-Ch-Changes – Time May Change Me

Al Moretti — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 13:39:44 +0000

“Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes Pretty soon now, you’re gonna get older Time may change me, but I can’t trace time I said that time may change me, but I can’t trace time” With 2015 coming to a close here shortly in the next few weeks and as always, we look to the next [...]

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Intellectual Property Possession – Are You HTM Service Compliant?

Al Moretti — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:00:16 +0000

“Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind, such as inventions; literary and artistic works; designs; and symbols, names and images used in commerce.”

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The Customer is Always Right! – RIGHT?

Al Moretti — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 13:37:28 +0000

This week’s blog is on a topic that I have written on many times before but is a worthy repeat and reminder to all that read it. There are many passages that speak around the statement, “The Customer Is Always Right! “Customer service 101” tells us time and time again that listening is the most important part of any conversation and satisfying the customer is the only acceptable result.

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