Brian Montgomery Clinical Resources for Equipment Support Technology Services Inc (CREST Services for short), Lewisville, Tex, provides equipment support and a range of consulting services to hospitals and health care facilities coast to coast. As some companies scale operations back to ride out the recession, CREST has managed steady growth and has even been adding […]
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Standardized procedures help the team at SSMIHT improve cost efficiency, customer satisfaction, and patient outcomes
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Data Quality Management (DQM) is the newest name for a process that has been around for a very long time. DQM is a technique for authenticating, maintaining, and disseminating accurate, comprehensive data vital in medical equipment inventories and for quality control administration. I label DQM as a simple mathematical equation: Garbage in equals garbage out. […]
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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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Since the first ruby laser was put into operation in 1960, laser applications have found their way into all aspects of today’s technology-filled world. Lasers are used from manufacturing and scientific research to military applications, consumer electronics such as CD and DVD players, and the medical industry. Laser, an acronym for light amplification by stimulated […]
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