At this year’s annual conference and expo taking place June 1-3 in Long Beach, Calif., AAMI wants attendees to come away being the best and the brightest in the industry. For the first time, the conference will hold an entire education track devoted to alarm management and wireless issues — a major challenge for the profession, according to AAMI president Mary Logan. There will also be a whole track focused on CE-IT connectivity, in addition to parallel tracks on patient safety, imaging, business and management, and “The Big Picture.” In total, clinical engineers, biomedical technicians and other health care technology management professionals can take advantage of more than 50 educational sessions at this year’s show.

“I want attendees to get as much as possible out of the Annual Meeting,” Rick Schrenker, co-chair of the conference program committee, told DOTmed News.


On top of that, this year’s education program will be complimented by featured presentations from industry experts. Dr. James Mault, speaking on June 1, is the founder of five medical device and health monitoring service companies; Dr. David Bates, a health IT and patient safety expert, will be speaking on June 2 during the Dwight E. Harken, MD, Memorial Lecture; and Christopher Jerry, founder of the Emily Jerry Foundation, which increases public awareness of systemic problems in medicine, will be speaking on June 3rd.

Besides education sessions, more than 150 companies will be exhibiting new products and solutions during the show. And for the first time in many years, the conference will open with a welcome reception, an opportunity for attendees to network and connect with old friends.

“The same thing excites me today that excited me in 1980: being able to interact face to face with colleagues that I haven’t seen in a year. E-mail and other technologies don’t replace interpersonal interaction; I doubt they ever will,” said Schrenker.
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