It and finance executives are closer than ever in American businesses, according to an article published in Financial Times on March 21, 2012. “Corporate finance and IT departments have become ever more closely intertwined,” the article says, because finance needs IT tools to monitor and run the finance function. And...

Evolution is a pretty simple in principle when you apply it to life. I would argue it is applicable in all facets of our ho-hum existence. Everybody does it, and some don’t even realize it. For those of you who are not following me, I’m talking about survival of the...

Last year marked a milestone for clinical engineering certification. We welcomed 40 new CCEs into our ranks, making this one of largest (if not the largest) certification years. I have listed the names below. Please look and see if you know any of these dedicated, hardworking individuals. If so, call...

The most popular activity on the Internet these days is StumbleUpon. It is a feature that can be added to any web browser that, when you click on the StumbleUpon button, takes you to a random website. It is like unwrapping a birthday present every time you click your mouse....

Contracts are legal documents between two parties. they are legally binding unless they break some law (for example, you cannot have a legal contract to buy illegal drugs). A contract specifies that each of the two parties will do something for the other. This is an important part of the...

There are a lot of companies who seem to be giving away a lot of “free” goods and services and information. But are they really free? The nature of business (whether not-for-profit or a regular corporation) is that they must take in more money than they spend. That is, if...

Apparently not. Many equipment manufacturers believe that the sale of a piece of medical equipment to a hospital is just the start of a very long and lucrative opportunity to empty the coffers of the hospital. We all know the major offenders. They restrict access to schematics, diagnostics, training, repair...

Healthcare technology management is a little-known profession. Of course, to us in the field, it seems as if we are large and in charge. Quite the contrary. The medical equipment repair and maintenance business is very small when viewed in the nationwide or worldwide scheme of things. As reported by...

It’s well known that imaging engineers bristle when it is inferred that they are a variety of BMET (biomedical equipment technician). They vigorously announce, “I am not a biomed!” The only exception to this is those imaging engineers that started their careers as BMETs – they seem to never lose...

Last month , we discussed how asking for “required ” training or staff turned into an untruth if, when denied, you went ahead and took on the additional workload without the “necessary” resources. This month, I’ll tell you how to get the attention of the powers that be and make...