Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) Week

Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) Week, May 14–20, 2023, promotes awareness of—and appreciation for—the critical work of professionals who manage and maintain the vast assortment of health technology found in healthcare delivery organizations.

Get Your Team Ready to Celebrate #HTMWeek!

HTM Week Toolkit

HTM Week Poster

HTM Week Proclamation

2023 HTM Week Social Media Challenge

HTM Week is a time to reflect on and promote our field, and also to have some fun! AAMI is hosting the Best Biomed Sticky Note contest. HTM professionals are all too familiar with vague, uninformative, sometimes hilarious sticky notes placed on medical equipment to be repaired. Submit your photos with a short description to htm@aami.org or use #BiomedStickies or #HTMWeek on social!

During HTM Week anyone who has submitted a sticky note will be entered to win one of three $100 gift cards. Winners will be announced Friday, May 19 on AAMI social channels.

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Six-part HTMLive Spotlight Series: Cybersecurity

In an AAMI exclusive 6 part series, brought to you by Medigate by Claroty, experts will explain the unique variations that HHS has recommended for traditionally IT-centric security practices in order to address medical device cybersecurity challenges. The first two sessions of this series will take place during HTM Week! Thanks to Medigate by Claroty for sponsoring these sessions.

Operationalizing Asset Management
& Procurement Cybersecurity
May 16 | 2-3PM ET

Security on the Edge: Endpoint
Protection
May 18 | 2-3PM ET

Operationalizing Asset Management
& Procurement Cybersecurity
May 16 | 2-3PM ET

In January of 2023, Health and Human Services (HHS) made a significant update to their Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) for Medical Device Security. Device Identification & Management are first! The axiom goes “You can’t protect what you can’t see.” With an increasing explosion of cyber-physical connections in healthcare, Clinical Engineering and HTM are poised to capitalize on opportunities for education, growth and advancement.

ServiceNow and Medigate by Claroty have created an advanced integration and new workflow model for medical device asset management. In an AAMI exclusive 6 part series, we explain the unique variations that HHS has recommended for traditionally IT centric security practices in order to address medical device security challenges. Join us and learn why Asset Management is the first step on a cyber and operational resilience journey for medical device security:

Learn the importance of device identification, accuracy, detail and CMMS reconciliation?
Which downstream security process successes are predicated on accurate device identification details and why?
What workflows can be operationalized to reduce my workload, save time and increase cyber resilience?
What use cases can decrease expenses, increase Gross Patient Revenue (GPR) and reduce maintenance contract costs with these HHS Best Practices?
How can Asset Management automate the Omnibus Bill patching, updating and SBOM requirements?
Can these practices reduce organizations from onboarding new risks?

Speakers:
Ty Greenhalgh, Industry Principal, Healthcare – Medigate by Claroty
Mike Lussie, Global GM Healthcare and Lifesciences – ServiceNow

Security on the Edge: Endpoint
Protection
May 18 | 2-3PM ET

HHS recently provided a significant update to their Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices (HICP) for Medical Device Security. HICP points out that traditional endpoint security solutions don’t support medical devices the same way they support IT devices. As with authentication, most endpoint protection services are focused on agent-based approaches which assume that software and patches can be installed on the devices and managed through local or centralized servers. However, many medical devices that connect to the network do not support agents such as AV, antimalware, host intrusion, or even basic patching to protect them from known and zero-day threats. Houston…….???

Realizing this limitation, Crowdstrike and Medigate by Claroty have created a new level of integration extending the features of endpoint protection to the connected medical device inventory. In an AAMI exclusive 6 part series, we explain the unique variations that HHS has recommended for traditionally IT centric security practices in order to address medical device security challenges. Join us and learn how your Endpoint Protection can be extended to your medical devices and learn:

Why is Endpoint Protection an HHS Best Practice?
Understand the limitations in using endpoint protection on medical devices.
Know what data needs to be shared between solutions & the benefits to security
How does the combination of the solutions provide more comprehensive and accurate real-time vulnerability detection and response?
Unmanaged Devices…. Do we have those? How many and why?
How to identify OS vulnerabilities and unpatched devices before a security event.

Speakers:
Ty Greenhalgh, Industry Principal, Healthcare – Medigate by Claroty
Todd Felker, Executive Healthcare Strategist - CrowdStrike

High School Giveaway Contest

High school students are invited to participate in a special HTM Week giveaway. Three high school students will be awarded access to AAMI’s new BMET101 course. To align with AAMI’s strategic initiative of promoting the HTM Field, this giveaway will give students the opportunity to learn more about careers in HTM. To enter, students need to submit a 1-2 sentence definition of what HTM professionals do in healthcare—they can be directed to “HTM in a Box” to learn the answer! All high school students, grades 9-12, can enter the contest HERE. Submissions are due by May 14th, 2023.

Take a look back on HTM Week 2021