If a biomed thinks the downtime for a particular type of equipment in the hospital seems excessive, how can he/she find out if it actually is excessive? If it does turn out to be excessive, how can the department improve this metric? And how will it know that the measures put into place have actually […]
Read MoreToshiba America Medical Systems announces its 800th Vantage 1.5T MR system install at Elkview General Hospital in Hobart, Okla, a 50-bed, short-term general hospital, which will use the system for orthopedic, neuro, and abdominal imaging.
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Dipping into its resource pool, the team at Crouse Hospital increases safety and saves money
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Binseng Wang, ScD, CCE, FAIMBE, FACCE By now, many 24×7 readers are aware that The Joint Commission (TJC) has drastically reorganized its accreditation standards for 2009. The good news is that only a few substantive changes have been made in the standards, so extensive revisions of existing Medical Equipment Management (MEM) plans are not (yet) […]
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Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD Unless you have been living in a cave for the past few years, you know that the work of clinical engineering is increasingly similar to that of many branches of health care information technology (HIT). There is strong evidence that the specialties are moving closer together. In many health care organizations […]
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