The amount of service coverage and risk that a hospital assumes on a piece of equipment often depends on the ebb and flow of business and revenue. Flexible service contracts allow biomedical departments to respond to such fluctuations by increasing or decreasing coverage.
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With The Joint Commission’s mandate to improve management of alarms now in effect, hospitals are now going all out to inventory their systems. To establish alarm management as an organizational priority, top hospital leadership must set the tone.
Read MoreMedical interoperability will be the theme of the the West Health Institute’s Health Care Innovation conference next Thursday, February 6, in Washington DC. According to its organizers, the conference will provide an important venue to collaborate and partner on interoperability solutions.
Read MoreThe Affordable Care Act doesn’t have to spell doom for clinical engineering organizations. The heads of three prominent HTM departments explain how you can help your department survive—and, better yet, thrive—in an era of healthcare reform.
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Faced with the prospect of stagnation, in 2008 the leaders of the Indiana Biomedical Society chose to seek out new leadership from a younger generation. As a result, they have set the foundation for the new technology and the new communication strategies needed to take the group to the next level.
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