Solidifying Job Security
BMETs and CEs have enough to keep up with these days, but it seems the IT issue keeps coming up in various discussions. I received an e-mail from Paul McNamara of St Mary’s Hospital in Green Bay, Wis, who wrote abo
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Medical Missions
L-R: David Harrington, PhD, and Sam Downing, CEO, Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System, Salinas, Calif, mount a monitor. L-R: Nurse Dottie Harrington and Ray Schmitt, Assist International, set up a Philips bedside monitor in the emergency room. During a biomedical mission trip to India in 1992, David Harrington, PhD, a health care consultant from Medway, […]
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Synergy with IT? Just Do It
Jeffrey B. Cooper, PhD Unless you have been living in a cave for the past few years, you know that the work of clinical engineering is increasingly similar to that of many branches of health care information technology (HIT). There is strong evidence that the specialties are moving closer together. In many health care organizations […]
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Going Back in Time to Mend Hearts
The author comes full circle—this model of an IV pump was the first device he worked on during his internship. The medical profession has seen a lot of technological advancement through the years, beginning with analog and progressing into the digital age controlled by microprocessors. Along with these changes, we have seen medical equipment become […]
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Managing the Budget Crunch
In times like these, with virtually no money for new equipment, cash-strapped facilities are relying on biomed departments to keep vital machines running.
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