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BRMI

Blue Ridge Medical Imaging Inc (BRMI) was founded by Carl Hoffman, who began his career with Siemens in 1975 after earning an honorable discharge from the US Air Force. After 20 years with the company, Hoffman left Siemens to start his own business, which was officially incorporated in 1996. Now celebrating 10 years in the […]

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What IT Does Not Know About You

At a session on the convergence of the clinical engineering and information technology (IT) departments during this year’s Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation conference, I surveyed the audience to find out how many believed the IT departments at their facilities had an idea of what a clinical engineer (CE) does on a day-to-day […]

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Looking Into Imaging Equipment

Fronically, getting a look inside imaging equipment is sometimes more difficult than getting a look inside the human body. It is definitely as complex. Ionizing radiation devices—x-ray, computed tomography (CT), mammography, and fluoroscopy—create images of varying detail through the interaction of the body and radiation. X-ray exams, for instance, do not distinguish very well between […]

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