(AAMI: Arlington, VA) -- The challenges in managing medical devices on wireless and wired IT networks are the focus of a special Horizons magazine just released by the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). The latest in a series of special-topic issues, this one focuses on helping health care organizations and medical device manufacturers ensure that their networks and products are secure, reliable, cost-effective, and positioned for future success.

In many ways, health care is struggling under the weight of too much technology that just doesn’t work well together yet. This issue of Horizons focuses on how to get equipment to do what it’s supposed to do, safely. It’s about managing the process of connecting medical devices into IT systems and getting components to work properly over networks, both wired and wireless.

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