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 […]
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Like most companies, Barrington Medical Imaging (BMI), Barrington, Ill, began with a vision: to provide the US market with refurbished CT and MRI equipment that could compete with OEMs in terms of warranty, quality, and after-sale service. Partners Bill Yovic and Bill Erbes founded the company in 2000 after working together, both here and abroad, […]
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More and more, medical instrumentation is commonly connected to a computer network of some kind. The network could include a server, or possibly just be used to interconnect medical devices. For years, biomedical employers have expressed their need for biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) with formal training in computer networking and also in how the networks […]
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Starting January 1, 2009, The Joint Commission implemented the Standards Improvement Initiative (SII). This involved revisions to the format, structure, numbering, and wording of standards and EPs. Redundant or nonessential standards and elements of performance were deleted, and similar standards and EPs were consolidated. Some EPs were split into separate requirements, and scoring categories were […]
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Do you ever get calls like this? “HELP! I can’t send images to PACS!” Or, “I can’t print films from the workstation!” Or, “I can’t save my patient exam to the server!” The device could be an endoscopy acquisition station or an EMG/EEG machine that is running in local mode because it cannot connect to […]
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