Wyatt’s advancement within the profession attests to her commitment to promoting biomed within her Texas community. Another example is the reaction of her peers. Roger Bowles, MS, EdD, CBET and department chair of the Bio- medical Equipment Technology Department at Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, attests to her...

It was early in 1977 that a focus group held a meeting at the Michigan Hospital Association in Lansing, Mich. As an outcome of the meeting, a steering committee was established to consider the best ways to bring together biomedical professionals in the area. The steering committee met two months...

In the biomed shop, savings opportunities are generally worth investigating – they strengthen the case for in-house services and help reduce the bottom line. Assigning the repair and maintenance of surgical instrument sets to in-house techs is one cost-cutting opportunity that may be worth considering. Some facilities boast six- figure...

Change can mold a clinical engineering department into an efficient and successful entity, even when the road is bumpy. The clinical engineering department at West Penn Allegheny Health System learned that first-hand. It started three years ago, when outside consultants working with administration at several facilities in the system converged...

“The transition from Sheppard AFB could not have been smoother. The program moved over 75 staff and their families and over $8 million of training equipment from April 2010 to March 2011.” - Chief Warrant Officer 4 Faaruwq A. Muhammad “Our Navy BMET students are actually expected to go on a ship...

A convergence of biomed associations back in the 90s produced the Ohio Clinical Engineering Association. Those associations included the Toledo Biomed Association, the Central Ohio Medical Equipment Technicians Association and the Dayton Biomed Association. The name of the statewide organization became the Ohio Clinical Engineering Association (OCEA) in 2005. The...

Western Pennsylvania’s largest employer started its journey to mega-organization as a single psychiatric hospital. Those beginnings trace back to 1893, when the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) began as simply UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Today, UPMC operates more than 20 hospitals and employs more than 3,000 doctors. Within the massive...

When you win fourth place in a regional stenography contest and have your sights set on being a secretary, how do you end up as a biomed instead? A dad’s willingness to teach his daughter how to work on cars provides part of the answer. That exposure to tools and...

When you have a skill-set that is in demand, it is hard to retire. That was the case with Dr. Richard Davis of the Ohio State University Medical Center. Dr. Davis retired in October of 2011 from his position as associate executive director of the University Hospital in charge of...

Advances in medical technology provide new ways to help patients, save lives and provide clinicians with more information and greater potential for diagnosis and healing. But they can also upend the ways of the traditional biomed department. The continued progress of device connectivity has shifted the focus from a regulatory...