JANUARY 2013

TABLE OF CONTENTS

24×7

CoverOn the cover:

Richard Heck, MS, BME, EE,

Background, L-R: Perry Grant, Greg Doherty, John Klein,

Clinical engineering, Iowa Health Des Moines, of the Iowa Health System

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COVER STORY

Paving Roads Less Taken

Driven to begin outreach in the 1980s, the Iowa Health team now finds its efforts ahead of the curve

By Renee Diiulio

Low-Technology Effects on High-Technology Health Care

By C. Wayne Hibbs

 

Service Solutions

Innovative Strategies to Achieve Savings

By Jeff Niederhausen

 

Up Front

Stepping Up to the Challenges

By Julie Kirst

Networking

Still Out of Time

By Ken Olbrish, MSBE

CCE Prep

Committee Management IV

By Arif Subhan, MS, CCE, FACCE

Tools of the Trade

New book on medical equipment management, portable oscilloscope, infusion pump parts, diagnostic x-ray meters

Focus On: Advances in Imaging Equipment

Industry Insider

Rigol Technologies Inc

By Kurt Woock

 

Soapbox

To Fix Health Care, We Need More “Kaizen”

By By Mark Graban