The Compensation Survey for 2009, in some ways, revealed just how harsh the economic downturn has been for the biomedical field, and also illuminated the challenges and rewards experienced across the nation by biomedical equipment technicians, clinical engineers, managers, and others in the profession. Whether working in a hospital, clinic, imaging center, or for an […]
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Robert Grzeskowiak Recognizing the need for a fresh perspective in the non-OEM general ultrasound service and repair space, Robert Grzeskowiak began Midwest Imaging Corp in 1991 in the St Louis suburb of St Charles, Mo. The company offers parts, systems, labor, and peripherals on a growing list of ultrasound equipment, including devices by Siemens, Philips, […]
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24×7 looks back at the impact of the Institute of Medicine’s report “To Err Is Human” and the advances in patient safety over the past decade. James P. Bagian, MD, PE Bruce Hyndman, MSBE, PE” When the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) ground-breaking report “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System” was released in […]
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There is a separate chapter in The Joint Commission’s 2009 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals about leadership (LD). The LD standards affect all the individuals who are responsible for the overall governance of the hospital. According to the glossary of the 2009 Hospital Accreditation Standards, the leader is “an individual who sets expectations, develops plans, […]
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Tim Gee For more than 20 years, medical device manufacturers have been designing networked systems. These medical device system networks were designed to operate physically separate from the enterprise network. In private networks, manufacturers applied the same design principles to the network implementation of their systems as they did to embedded system devices. Variables were […]
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