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PANDEMIC BURNOUT AND A SHRINKING TALENT POOL: The critical factor impacting patient safety and 5 approaches to help
Administrative burdens, staff shortages, heavier workloads, and stress are all adding to staff burnout, turnover, and declining job satisfaction. Despite the grim forecasts for worker shortages and a lingering pandemic, healthcare leaders can take several proactive approaches to fortify their biomed teams and drive clinical engineering performance.
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Why Medical Device Cybersecurity hinges on far more than identifying risks
Effective cybersecurity hinges on a robust understanding of the importance of device inventory along with powerful analytics to guide clinical asset decision-making. Health systems can go a long way to ensuring medical equipment is proactively maintained, risks are properly managed, and device inventory is strategically leveraged to reduce costs.
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Supporting financial health with clinical asset reallocation
One frequently overlooked strategic tool for health systems is their clinical asset inventory. Making sure the right medical equipment is in the right place at the right time is an ever-increasing challenge.
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A one-two punch against cyber threats: A clinical engineering provider working in tandem with a security operations center
The unique challenges of medical device cybersecurity present a high risk to healthcare providers. Complex equipment that requires specific expertise are increasingly being connected to the internet while cyber threats grow in scope, cost, and maliciousness. Learn how health systems can obtain full value in enabling a security operations center by coupling it with a clinical engineering services provider.
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Leveraging A Clinical Asset Management Solution to Optimize Capital Planning
A nationally recognized academic medical center was looking to improve its capital planning process to optimize its clinical asset inventory and drive savings. They turned to their clinical engineering provider, TRIMEDX, for help to implement a comprehensive clinical asset management solution. As a result, the health system was able to save millions of dollars, implement a sustainable capital planning process and improve communication between administration and clinicians.
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Medical Devices At Risk: Gaps beyond cybersecurity protocols present vulnerabilities
A study of 100+ healthcare executives reveals the top three components necessary for a medical device security solution included real-time device monitoring, cybersecurity expertise, and remediation of vulnerabilities. Research indicates a lack of awareness of how clinical asset management can bolster defenses.
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Medical Device Management: How to rein in elusive costs
Significant financial and operational improvements are the output of strategically managing your medical device inventory, however, reaping these rewards requires data, technology, insights, and structure. TRIMEDX recently interviewed more than 100 c-suite healthcare executives to gain valuable insight into their unique needs. This research paper shares the awareness, perceived value, and use of medical device management services by healthcare executives. It introduces the need for three capabilities: technology-enabled clinical engineering, clinical asset management informatics, and cybersecurity to achieve results.
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Opportunities and Risks: How medical devices are maintained and managed
Hospital operating margins are under strain. A shortage of qualified technicians presents challenges. Medical devices increasingly are being connected to the internet while healthcare cybersecurity breaches are rising. Overlooked among these pressures and others is the scope of what a technology-enabled clinical asset management solution provides, new research suggests. By combining a robust understanding of device inventory with comprehensive clinical engineering and powerful analytics, healthcare systems can curb operating expenses and avoid unnecessary capital expenditures while ensuring medical device availability and supporting overall patient safety.
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The impact of medical device availability on patient safety
Patient safety is a primary concern for all health systems and medical devices play a critical role in supporting the safe and effective delivery of patient care. Looking beyond the “break/fix” mentality of traditional clinical engineering services, health systems must consider ways to be more proactive and responsive for the safety of these devices, ensuring device availability, tracking device location to support delivery of care, protecting the security of medical devices and including safety of devices as a consideration in capital planning initiatives.
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Optimizing Capital Expenditures: How Leading Providers Are Spending Wisely
Chris Dunkerley, CFO at TRIMEDX, sat down with four leading healthcare executives at Modern Healthcare’s 2019 Leadership Symposium to discuss their best practices and challenges in evaluating and facilitating enterprise capital investments. The discussion explored how leaders are thinking about their two most important assets, workforce and technology, and unlocking return on investments.
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Five Costs You Don’t Typically Associate with Clinical Engineering
It’s easy to pinpoint certain areas of the hospital where spending habits could be improved. Maybe there’s a different brand of consumables that could save you money, or perhaps you’re overstated in a department that isn’t generating enough revenue. There are other areas, however, that require a closer look. One of those is clinical engineering […]
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MEDICAL DEVICE SECURITY: WHERE TO START?
Cyberattacks on health technology are on the rise, raising the risks and costs associated with your connected medical devices and the data they hold, and, of course, raising worrying questions about patient safety. In this white paper, you'll learn how to reduce patient safety risks and costly violations.
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Developing A Best-in-Class Clinical Engineering Department
Declining reimbursement and lower patient volumes are continuing to put pressure on hospitals to reduce spending and save money. Due in large part to the high visibility of costs related to equipment maintenance and repairs and capital acquisition, one of the first places many hospitals start looking for ways to save is in the clinical […]
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Understanding The Regulatory Requirements for Documenting Medical Maintenance
In today’s hospital, there’s a significant gap between hospital risk management and clinical engineering. Clinical engineers are hired to maintain, repair and replace equipment but many times are also expected to oversee hospital risk management related to this equipment. In a typical hospital, there aren’t enough engineers and techs to adequately cover the risk management […]
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