Capital MBS Offers Flexible Medical Equipment Financing
Capital MBS has launched flexible financing options for healthcare providers to help procure advanced medical equipment.
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Innovation Ahead: Overcoming Obstacles to Medical Device Advancement
The entrepreneurial pathway for innovation is rarely a straight line, nor does it often return quick results, maintains Watershed Idea Foundry CEO Nick Cordaro. In this article, Cordaro explains how companies can overcome impediments to medical device advancement.
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GE Healthcare Debuts Wireless Asset Tracking Technology
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.
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Capital MBS Offers Flexible Medical Equipment Financing
Capital MBS has launched flexible financing options for healthcare providers to help procure advanced medical equipment.
Why Your Hospital’s Mobility Solutions Are Falling Flat
When it comes to the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) revolution, enterprises in heavily regulated industries, such as health care, must comply with more stringent regulations than ever before. Unfortunately, the BYOD movement is even more complex in these instances.
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Generally Accepted Accounting Practices
In the past two Prep Talk columns, we looked at key management issues you need to be aware of for the certified healthcare technology manager (CHTM) exam, such as how equipment purchasing fits into your organization’s strategic plan. This month’s installment looks at another area of the CHTM exam: accounting.
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It’s Back! Rust-Out
In April 1999, 24×7 published a Soapbox column titled “Rust-Out: The Silent Affliction,” describing how some biomeds stop progressing technology-wise and stay in their comfort zone, not looking to advance or take on new challenges. Dave Harrington thought that problem was in the past, but at a recent meeting of the New England Society of Clinical Engineers, the biomeds and clinical engineers in attendance were showing many of the signs that lead to this professional burnout.
Read MoreOlympus Agrees to Pay $646 Million Fine for Kickback Violations In US and Latin America
Endoscopes distributor Olympus Corp of the Americas has agreed to pay a $623.2 million fine to settle criminal charges and civil claims related to the company’s illegal payment of kickbacks to doctors and hospitals. The settlement is the largest amount in United States history involving violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute by a medical device company. The company’s Latin American division will also pay $22.8 million to resolve criminal charges in Latin America.
Read MoreCanon to Acquire Toshiba in $6.2 Billion Deal
Toshiba has granted Canon exclusive negotiating rights for Toshiba Medical Systems Corp, accepting Canon’s offer of $6.2 billion (700 billion yen). The second round of bidding, whose value exceeded expectations, also included Fujifilm and a coalition of Konica Minolta and European buyout firm Permira.
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End Times: Planning for Capital Equipment Purchases
Clinical engineering plays a central role in planning for the replacement and acquisition of new capital equipment. The data you provide will directly impact the day-to-day operations and financial well-being of your organization for years to come. So what information do you need to provide, where do you get it, and who needs to receive it?
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Medical Mission Trips 101
As a biomed, bringing your talent to a developing world hospital that is struggling for sound medical equipment can be an intensely satisfying experience. For those who are thinking about making a medical mission trip to the developing world for the first time, partnering with an organization that can help prepare supplies and contacts is key to a successful experience.
