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The popular perception of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare can be gleaned by searching any stock art website: a gleaming white robot brandishing a stethoscope or a physician waving her arms in front of an icon-rich virtual heads-up display. AI and machine learning algorithms can allow device replacement and repairs to be scheduled according to actual needs instead of general timetables based on industry trends, and AI-based predictive tools could give HTM professionals the ability to determine, for example, when it would be more cost effective for a device to be on a service contract. The company Zingbox already is providing healthcare facilities with Internet of Things security solutions by first gaining an accurate picture of connected assets within their overall device inventories, and then using AI algorithms to automatically \"learn\" the normal behaviors of individual devices and monitor those devices for abnormal activity.

Sheffer discusses essential role in helping facilities make informed decisions when selecting and streamlining mobile technologies. During a visit by AAMI to the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) in Baltimore, he was struck by the quiet calm that permeated the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)--a serenity that belied the true gravity of the environment. The newborns cared for in the NICU often are premature and critically ill, and a medical error--or a delay in intervention-- could lead to injury or death. Despite the need for rapid response, the UMMC NICU has eschewed the traditional use of a PA broadcasting system and verbal handoffs among clinicians for a wireless communication system that allows alarms in the private NICU patient rooms to be transmitted directly to nurses' mobile phones. The wireless delivery messaging system implemented by UMMC has gone through several iterations--and become highly customized--since it was implemented about four years ago.

\"Endoscope technology has advanced from observational devices to being used in complex, minimally invasive surgical procedures in which the endoscope or endoscope accessories cross the membrane barrier into sterile tissue,\" stated Wiser. \"Because of this, experts are starting to recommend that the Spaulding classification be updated so that endoscopes are considered critical devices.\" Klacik highlighted comments by William Rutala, director of North Carolina's statewide program for infection control and epidemiology and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina, who has said \"that when the Spaulding system was designed 50 years ago, semicritical items rarely, if ever, penetrated sterile tissue and healthcare did not have an adequate appreciation for the infection risk associated with endoscope reprocessing, with endoscopes used primarily for diagnostic purposes.\" Using data gathered from medical device companies, Joyce Hansen and Trabue Bryans (p. 38) evaluated methods for establishing a radiation sterilization dose, concluding that \"one may use Modified Method 2 for any application, while Method 2 may be used to obtain equally reliable results.\"