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Thought Leader: Never Be Afraid To Hire People Smarter Than Yourself

Al Moretti — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 12:04:00 +0000

All of us can remember the mentors who touched our lives and made a lasting impact. We can all remember those who guided us through our journey of life. One of my important mentors I met by chance. Little did I know that this person would forever – through his leadership, wisdom and belief in [...]

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Thought Leader: Best Quality or Best Price – How About Best Value?

Al Moretti — Thu, 01 Sep 2016 11:23:44 +0000

By Alan Moretti The conversations are similar wherever you may do business or receive goods. Best quality and best price – everybody demands both or at least that’s what is said. In reality, people will generally settle for one or the other. In today’s health care environment the drive toward providing both best quality and [...]

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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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Thought Leader: The Winds of Regulatory Change Are Blowing

Al Moretti — Wed, 04 May 2016 20:25:57 +0000

The recent FDA press release of March 4 titled, “Refurbishing, Reconditioning, Rebuilding, Remarketing, Remanufacturing, and Servicing of Medical Devices Performed by Third-Party Entities and Original Equipment Manufacturers; Request for Comments,” is important for TechNation readers. It now brings the alternative equipment service provider and in-house HTM groups to what could be the final decision and [...]

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Thought Leader: R.I.P. Computed Radiography

Al Moretti — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 18:00:07 +0000

A “technology breakthrough” can be both revolutionary and earth shattering though in the same sense fleeting. The basis that drives the science behind any technology breakthrough is always to enable improvement to a function or a process. The predecessor to any “technology breakthrough” should always be best remembered as the cornerstone that enabled such a [...]

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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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