Note: This post appeared in abbreviated form as the Final Word article in the January/February 2019 issue of BI&T. During my time at AAMI, I have noticed a lot of confusion surrounding the term “healthcare […]

A few years ago, I semi-retired as the manager of a clinical engineering department in a large teaching hospital in California. When the subsequent manager retired this past summer, I became the interim manager during […]

In my previous blog post, I wrote about how the continual focus on measuring and reporting on the number of scheduled inspections (preventive maintenance, or PMs) is a “sacred cow” that needs to be put […]

My story in healthcare started more than 30 years ago in the Navy, where I was a hospital corpsman. Although I found providing direct patient care satisfying, I was also fascinated by the role of […]

I am writing this blog post while flying back from Indianapolis, where Frank Painter and I recently finished a day-long, AAMI-sponsored alternative equipment maintenance (AEM) workshop at the Indiana Biomedical Society conference. There were 30 enthusiastic […]

I recently left my position as director of the healthcare engineering technology management program at IUIPUI. The move was both dramatic (accepting the position, moving, and selling my home in six weeks) and traumatic, as […]

A few years ago, my medical center decided to replace our bedside vital signs monitor (VSM) fleet to new technology that would integrate into the electronic health record (EHR). Because of our focus on an […]