DOTmed June 1, 2024
Ensuring optimal patient care: 3 critical strategies employed by clinical engineers
How leading organizations are avoiding patient care disruptions, enhancing efficiency, and addressing workforce challenges
While their efforts often go unnoticed, hospital clinical engineers—who are also often referred to as biomeds, biomedical engineers, or biomedical equipment technicians—shoulder a heavy burden. Responsible for medical device implementation and oversight, clinical engineers manage the quality, operability, and efficacy of the machines that, for many patients, can mean life or death.
When a device fails, the first step is to check whether the technology has been properly managed. Did it receive the appropriate maintenance on schedule? Are all operating systems up-to-date? These maintenance and systems strategy questions—along with many others—fall within the purview of...
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