Hospital leaders face a capital expenditures predicament with their medical devices. On one hand, they obviously need available devices to provide care. On the other hand, budgets are limited. Having too few devices is a problem—but so is having too many. Here, TRIMEDX’s Dave Klumpe offers a solution.
In this Soapbox column, healthcare consultant and 24×7 Magazine editorial board member Dave Harrington, PhD, makes the case for communicating better with vendors and co-workers from the top down.
GE Healthcare has unveiled Encompass, a system that helps hospitals manage their mobile asset inventories. Encompass can improve outcomes by enabling healthcare providers to locate critical, mobile assets in real-time with accuracy and ease.
Hospital leaders face a capital expenditures predicament with their medical devices. On one hand, they obviously need available devices to provide care. On the other hand, budgets are limited. Having too few devices is a problem—but so is having too many. Here, TRIMEDX’s Dave Klumpe offers a solution.
The market research firm IBISWorld has issued a report by Lead Healthcare Analyst Anna Son, who addresses the question: How can hospitals reduce the cost of providing care?
Read MoreIBISWorld analyst Sarah Turk predicts that burgeoning digital technologies will pay substantial dividends for healthcare by 2020, both reducing healthcare costs and improving access to care.
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At the annual conference of the California Medical Instrumentation Association on January 17, Joseph Dysko said that capital equipment planning represents the biggest opportunity for HTM professionals to become more involved with the C suite.
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The best ways of meeting demands to cut HTM expenses are often not the obvious ones. With persistence, careful analysis, and a willingness to experiment, HTM departments can reduce costs while increasing their effectiveness.
Read MoreAlthough every hospital is unique and no two solutions will look exactly alike, taking a holistic approach and improving workflow efficiency and productivity across the entire equipment lifecycle can yield significant savings of up to $5,000 per bed.
Read MoreThe amount of service coverage and risk that a hospital assumes on a piece of equipment often depends on the ebb and flow of business and revenue. Flexible service contracts allow biomedical departments to respond to such fluctuations by increasing or decreasing coverage.
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Repairing ultrasound equipment and systems with re-engineered replacement parts is a cost-effective way to help maximize the life of equipment and save healthcare facilities from 40% to 50% of the replacements costs charged by OEMs.
