Author: Frank Magnarelli

Frank has over forty years of experience developing and managing single and multi-hospital based biomedical programs in the US and the Middle East. His experience also includes managing service for medical device manufacturers and directing clinically oriented technology acquisition programs.

I have never been a big fan of the Joint Commission because I feel they have often imposed testing standards merely for their surveyors to have something that was measurable. These standards sometimes caused us to waste valuable resources routinely testing devices when evidence showed that there was no benefit to the testing. Each year biomedical engineering departments collectively perform hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tests.

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Last week I wrote about the importance of goal setting for your department and I outlined four goals that I feel are important to your success. They focus on customers, employees, the biomedical community and vendors. This week’s blog discusses the first and most important of those four goals.

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