Healthcare Technology Management was a publication created to provide practical ideas and solutions regarding the management, procurement, service and support of healthcare technology. The magazine is today reborn as a section of Clinical Innovation + Technologyyoure looking at itand our commitment to the development of the healthcare technology manager remains as strong as ever.

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.

The FBI has arrested a former employee of Florida Hospital's Celebration Health in Celebration, charging him with accessing 760,000 emergency department records over two years and selling some of them to someone who solicited for attorneys and chiropractors.

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.

An expected spike in healthcare spending resulting from full implementation of the Patient Protection Affordable Care Act will disrupt an extended period of lower than average growth, according to the California HealthCare Foundation. The philanthropic organizations 2012 healthcare almanac looks at how much is spent on healthcare, where its being spent and whos doling out the dollars.