Many small business owners of companies in the healthcare technology management (HTM) space are nearing retirement—a problem seen widely in the HTM field. Here are ways to handle this trend, from the mouth of an expert.
In June's installment of The LynchPin, biomedical expert Patrick Lynch delves into succession planning in the HTM industry. After all, he says, with the recent closures of numerous private, for-profit biomedical schools, as well as the fact that many professionals are nearing retirement age, succession planning is a must for HTM departments.
Many clinical engineering departments have struggled with determining the appropriate staffing levels for their particular health care facility. Increasingly, hospital administrators prefer to utilize benchmarks when measuring the need to adjust staffing for a clinical department. Unlike our colleagues in the respiratory care and nursing professions, there have been no widely accepted or accurate models […]