Hospitals are amazing and satisfying places to work. Although there are many career choices for people…
Author: Frank Magnarelli
In a recent New Yorker article entitled “The Engineer’s Lament”, Malcolm Gladwell wrote about the issues…
Nurses, physicians and other caregivers rely on the devices in your inventory to assure the best…
According to the Gallup Organization, “In 2014, Americans say nurses have the highest honesty and ethical standards. Members of Congress and car salespeople were given the worst ratings among the 11 professions included in this year’s poll. Eighty percent of Americans say nurses have “very high” or “high” standards of honesty and ethics, compared with a 7% rating for members of Congress and 8% for car salespeople.”
In the early 1960’s, I worked for the medical division of a large company that manufactured…
Many hospital based biomedical engineering programs and shared service organizations were started in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s in response of the necessity to assure an electrically safe environment for patients and employees. In addition to performing repairs and educating caregivers, the fundamental role of BMETs was to test leakage current levels on each patient care device.
What does the future hold for hospital based biomedical engineering programs? Could disruptive technological innovations and…
Selecting new medical equipment can be a difficult process for many hospitals. There are multiple departments…
A few years ago, Foxseer Medical displayed their $698.00 bedside monitor at the Florida International Medical…
Companies are said to be caught up in a race to the bottom when they begin…
