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Mature Analytic Structure Boosts Healthcare Response to COVID-19

As COVID-19 struck, one of the most critical decisions healthcare providers faced was how to best allocate limited medical resources, including ventilators. But organizations that already had a mature analytics structure in place fared better than those that didn’t.

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Hardwiring Process Improvement in Clinical Engineering

Whether your feel the pinch of an actual cut, lose a position due to attrition, or simply aren’t allowed to hire as your workload increases, most of us will be tasked with doing more with less at some point. But how do you manage these situations? After all, most people aren’t in a position to reduce the services they provide or charge more for them. That’s where process improvement comes in.

Beyond Technical Competency

How often have users of technology sent you reports of failure, bad image quality, intermittent operation, ghosts, etc, that did not clearly explain the situation to enable isolation of the problem? Reports such as, we’re getting an alarm even though the patient is in normal sinus rhythm; the image was grainy, and I couldn’t get […]

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Earning a [Great] Seat at the Equipment Planning Table

If your clinical engineering department is involved in the first discussions about all-new equipment purchases in your hospital, consider yourselves fortunate. If it is a given that you are the primary resource for equipment planning, then congratulate your department and thank your boss; you have succeeded in cutting through the political quagmire of hospital red […]

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Network Security

Sherman Eagles Nick Mankovich Axel Wirth John A. Christly Credit card numbers, patient data, social security numbers. These days, this sort of data is uploaded to hospital networks with increasing frequency, presenting a tantalizing prospect to today’s modern hacker—a group no longer limited to computer-savvy youth looking for a taste of fame. “Hacking now is […]

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Departments in Transition

Facing today's departmental shifts with new tools and a positive outlook can help employees effectively cope with change