Healthcare Technology Management
Healthcare Technology Management
HTM covers inventory, capital planning, contracts, KPIs, and technology assessment across the lifecycle. The exam tests how managers use data to prioritize replacement, service, and clinical support.
Core rules
- CMMS data quality drives decisions: equipment ID, location, criticality, maintenance history, and downtime.
- Capital replacement scoring uses clinical need, age, failure rate, parts availability, cybersecurity risk, and support status.
- Service strategy includes in-house, OEM, ISO, or hybrid models; compare total cost, response time, competence, and access to software.
- Track uptime, PM completion, mean time to repair, repeat failures, and recall closure.
Worked example
Device A is 12 years old, has 8 failures per year, obsolete parts, and high clinical dependency. Device B is 7 years old, has 2 failures per year, and is fully supported. Even if both have similar purchase prices, Device A scores higher for replacement because failure frequency, parts risk, and clinical dependency increase its lifecycle risk.
Traps
- Buying on price alone and ignoring service and downtime cost.
- Ignoring cybersecurity support status in replacement decisions.
- Relying on incomplete CMMS records for capital requests.