34 episodes listed below
Medical technology safety, explained by the people doing the work.
AAMI's interview podcast pairs host Terry Baker with engineers, sterile processing leaders and security specialists to talk through how medical equipment is designed, cleaned, maintained and protected. The conversations stay practical, often tracing a hospital problem back to the standard or technical report written to address it.
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The podcast from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation is an interview show about the unglamorous systems that keep medical equipment safe. Host Terry Baker talks with the people who design devices, clean them, maintain them and defend them from attack. Guests include human factors engineers, a sterile processing manager responsible for two large hospitals in Colorado, a medical device security consultant finishing law school, and members of AAMI working groups. That mix keeps the talk tied to wards, reprocessing rooms and networks rather than theory. The human factors discussion is the clearest example. Michael Wiklund lays out the reasoning behind an estimate that interface-related device errors may be linked to tens of thousands of deaths a year in the U.S., a scale compared to car accidents. Another guest describes 'low-demand design', meant to stay safe when a user is running on too little sleep or food. The conversation then turns to contextual inquiry and AAMI's TIR 51, including a common developer assumption that nurses will receive comprehensive training on a device, an assumption that observing clinicians at work puts to the test. That discussion ran long enough to be split across two episodes. Sterile processing gets the same close attention. In 'AAMI Podcast 32: Importance of Drying Flexible Endoscopes', Mary Ann Drosnock and Damien Berg explain that an automated reprocessor's air purge cycle does not reliably dry a scope's internal channels. They describe compressed-air drying, borescope inspection and indicator strips as ways to confirm the job is done. Berg frames the sterile processing manager's job around three things: tools, training and removing barriers for frontline staff. Security is another thread. Cory Brennan discusses connected-device risk, the gap between HTM and IT teams and how slowly policy has moved, while Baker notes that getting those two groups working together has been a personal mission for fifteen years. The home infusion episode stays equally hands-on, with Jason Amaral describing a working group model that broke home infusion transitions into four stages and 26 common jobs, and the other guest urging that patient and caregiver training begin in the clinical setting. Episode titles widen the range further, with entries such as 'Supporting the Governance and Regulation of AI', 'AAMI Podcast 17- Clinical Alarm Management' and 'AAMI Podcast 10- Is PM a Thing of the Past?'. There is occasional levity, as when a guest answers a question about regulators with a deadpan 'No' before admitting to kidding. What a listener takes away is practical method: how a team might check its own drying process, plan a home therapy handoff, or question a device's interface before it reaches a patient.
Made for: Suits a listener who works with or around medical equipment, in clinical engineering, sterile processing, device design or hospital security, and wants practical, standards-aware conversation rather than headlines.
What sets it apart: Because it comes from the association behind standards and reports such as ST91 and TIR 51, conversations often connect a bedside or reprocessing-room problem to the specific document meant to address it, sometimes with a guest who helped shape that document.
The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) is developing a series of podcasts in partnership with the studios of Healthcare Tech Talk. The podcasts will explore today's most pressing healthcare technology challenges and the multidisciplinary approaches that are being used to clarify and resolve them. Terry Baker and Kelley Hill, along with renowned subject matter experts, discuss everything from how different technology is developed, implemented, used and maintained, to the patient experience, to endeavors that highlight the crucial role that healthcare technology management (HTM) professionals play in the delivery of healthcare.
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A clear, grounded review of how medical-device interfaces can fail when attention is already stretched.
Medical equipment comes into focus as a test of attention in this PlayNext single-episode review, with human factors design framed around a blunt problem: interfaces that demand too much from clinicians can contribute to harm.
A focused review of flexible endoscope drying, storage conditions, and manufacturer pressure limits.
Flexible endoscopes can become a storage risk when moisture is left inside. This review stays centered on ST91 drying guidance before storage: clearing all channels with compressed air, using properly cleaned cabinets with at least HEPA-filtered air, and respecting the pressure…
A grounded review of medical device security as a shared HTM, IT, and patient-care responsibility.
Medical device security is treated here as a practical problem that lives between clinical engineering and information technology, with patient care sitting at the center.
Medtech strategy, straight from the people running it.
Regulatory clarity for medtech’s hard decisions.
Medical technology, explained from problem to market.
Orthopedic surgeons and researchers on putting weight-bearing CT to work
AAMI Podcast 33 focuses on human factors design in medical equipment, with Terry Baker interviewing Kate McNamee, Mary Beth Privatera, and Michael Wickland.
Terry Baker interviews Marianne Drosnock and Damian Berg on the AAMI Podcast about flexible endoscope drying, with Drosnock saying AER air-purge cycles do not reliably make scopes dry.
["Terry Baker and Cori Brennan center the AAMI podcast on medical device security at the junction of clinical engineering and IT.", "Brennan describes site work across health systems, including a security role at Ascension Health covering more than 115 hospitals and more than half a million devices.", "She says both teams often answer differently when asked who sets up a new medical device on the network, which exposes the communication gap she keeps seeing on site.", "Brennan also describes her work on AMI's Healthcare Technology Leadership Council, where she is helping with C-suite messaging and internship advocacy while studying for a JD at Indiana University School of Law."]
Pat Baird explains how an AI trained on dogs and wolves learned snow instead of animals.
AAMI Podcast 28 examines why infusion therapy and other hospital technologies are moving into homes as patients leave hospitals after only a couple of days.
This episode discusses the ANSI/AAMI/ISO 13485 standard for quality management systems in medical device manufacturing.
An interview with Glenn McQueen, Director of Operations for Modern Biomedical and Imaging, discussing the role of imaging service engineers and the state of medical imaging technology in 2016.
A discussion on digital health bridging the gap between promise and reality, featuring an expert from BCG Digital Ventures.
Introduction to the AAMI podcast series discussing healthcare technology challenges and featuring an interview with Mary Logan.