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Staffing for Excellence: A New FTE Model

James Jernigan Determining the right staffing model for a hospital’s clinical engineering department is a difficult undertaking, but it is crucial for maintaining the integrity of your biomedical, radiology, laboratory, and IT equipment. Plus, it may save your organization thousands of dollars. The most common method of determining clinical engineering full-time equivalents (FTEs) involves an […]

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The AZMIA

Matt Tomory Lori Catron Lacking networking and educational offerings for biomeds in the state of Arizona, a group of industry professionals—from BMETs and clinical engineering managers to regional account managers from service companies—banded together to create the Arizona Medical Instrumentation Association (AZMIA). Founded in 2008 on a platform of educating and unifying biomeds in the […]

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Service Contract Management II

This article will discuss the different terms and conditions to look for in service contracts. The vendors—original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and independent service organizations (ISOs)—provide different types of contracts depending on the level of coverage. Most of the vendors offer some form of a full service agreement. Different vendors may offer different coverage in their […]

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IPv4 Imminent Depletion

Jeff Kabachinski Hmm—I wonder if this is a looming network catastrophe or another Y2K ho-hum event? The issue: We are quickly running out of Internet address space. I am not surprised, in that we turn on more than 200 million new Internet

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