The EBME seminar is an independent educational event bringing together healthcare professionals that are responsible for the management of medical equipment. EBME chairman Dr John Sandham, CEng, FIHEEM, MIET, discusses what to expect.
These medical equipment healthcare professionals are involved in areas such as procurement, maintenance, user training, and managing inventories. This year’s event is taking place on 26th April at the Milton Keynes DoubleTree Hilton Hotel. Here, EBME chairman Dr John Sandham, CEng, FIHEEM, MIET, discusses what to expect.
The overall outcome of good healthcare technology management is to make training, maintenance and governance achievable, thereby reducing risk and costs for an organisation. Achieving professional management of technology requires a structured approach with the right skills and tools to deliver the required healthcare services and outcomes.
Hospitals face fundamental questions of patient safety, care, and budgetary issues for replacing technology. Hospitals must professionally manage their healthcare technology - which includes the equipment, consumables, user training, maintenance and regulatory compliance. Evidence shows that there is an increasing issue that healthcare technology is not being properly managed or replaced because of lack of funding, and a lack of professionals to actually manage the technology. In many NHS organisations, more than 40% of equipment is already past its recommended life – and the situation is getting worse.
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