Measuring the Value of Clinical Engineering –
The Only Metric Needed to Compare Operations
Patrick K. Lynch, CCE, CBET
Have you tried benchmarking? Have you been disappointed? Have you given up because it was too hard? Or because it didn’t yield usable information for you?
Have you tried to find other hospitals to benchmark against? Have you abandoned this because to the differences in programs from one hospital to the next?
Are you worried about outsourcing? Do you need to figure out hoe to expand your program to best benefit the hospital?
Well, here is the ultimate answer. It is easy. It applies to EVERY hospital, department, clinic, or system. It pinpoints the specific areas where you should focus your energies to make yourself indispensable to your employer. It can help make you virtually invulnerable to outsourcing.
COSR – Cost of Service Ratio – is this magic tool. Come see how it works, why it works, and how to convince you top management to accept it as the main metric for HTM, Biomed and Imaging Engineering,
As a preparation, read the article in the July 2013 TechNation Magazine by Patrick Lynch, entitled Measuring the Cost of Service.
Brief Biography
Patrick Lynch is an experienced biomedical manager with formal training as a technician, engineer, and in business management (at the graduate level). He has worked exclusively in healthcare since 1975. And has managed clinical engineering and biomedical departments since 1979.
Presently, he is with Global Medical Imaging, an ultrasound sales, training, parts, and service company in Charlotte, where his full-time job is to support the development of the biomedical profession throughout the country. This is accomplished through no-charge advice, consulting, frequent educational presentations and the active creation and development of local biomedical associations.
Pat is the 2-time winner of the ACCE (American College of Clinical Engineering) Advocacy Award (2004 and 2009) and MD Publishing’s Professional of the Year (2012).
Professionally, he was the first president of the North Carolina Biomedical Association in 1980/81 and the Chairman of the Board of Examiners for Biomedical Equipment Technicians for 6 years.
Patrick remains active in the profession, as a member of over 40 Biomedical associations in the US, and a Board Member or advisor to many of them (NC, SC, Alabama, Utah, Virginia, and Ohio) Pat is a regular contributor to Tech Nation Magazine, BI&T, TechNation listserv, Executive Insights, Advances for Imaging and Radiation Oncology and Biomedtalk listserv.
Pat is married, living happily in Fort Mill, South Carolina with his wife, and near their 3 children and 6 grandchildren. He may be reached at plynch@gmi3.com.
