RESUMO
Technology management services at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are provided by two distinct cost centers: The Department of Biomedical Instrumentation and Jefferson Biomedical Shared Services. The in-house division of the Department of Biomedical Instrumentation (BMI) provides clinical engineering services to the hospital, a 717-bed, tertiary care facility. BMI supports traditional patient care instrumentation, as well as dialysis machines, anesthesia machines, lasers, and the neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) systems. In addition, the department supports over 3,000 personal computers and associated peripherals, and provides research, design, database support, device evaluation, incident investigation, and product problem investigation services. Jefferson Biomedical Shared Services, an integral component of the Department of Biomedical Instrumentation, offers a shared services program to local area hospitals. It has a current client list of 11 major healthcare institutions with annual revenues approaching $3,000,000 per year.
Assuntos
Engenharia Biomédica/organização & administração , Serviços Hospitalares Compartilhados/organização & administração , Serviço Hospitalar de Engenharia e Manutenção/organização & administração , Modelos Organizacionais , Hospitais com mais de 500 Leitos , Hospitais Universitários/organização & administração , PhiladelphiaAssuntos
Engenharia Biomédica , Oxigenação por Membrana Extracorpórea/instrumentação , Terapia Intensiva Neonatal/tendências , Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente , Especialização , Segurança de Equipamentos , Hospitais Universitários , Humanos , Recém-Nascido , Capacitação em Serviço , Philadelphia , Recursos HumanosRESUMO
Recent restructuring of the quality assurance standards of the JCAHO and the benefits to be gained from assurance indicators are requiring clinical engineering support groups to manage their equipment inventories with greater precision. Technological enhancements in the database industry have provided these groups with a mechanism with which they can manage. Assessments of equipment reliability, departmental management, and quality assurance give supervisory staff an important tool for feedback.