Medical Equipment Planning Resources on the Web

Technology advances quickly and keeping abreast of the ever changing medical equipment and healthcare environment is an important challenge to healthcare professionals including medical equipment planners. One way to keep up to date on these changes is by participating in webinars and other training.

There are many free webinars available, which are relevant to the medical equipment planner. Some recent topics have included wireless advances in healthcare, Vendor Neutral Archiving, Cloud Technology, Integration of Physician office EMR systems and medical equipment, advantages of a patient portal for EMRs, Imaging advances in CT and MRI just to name a few.

Finding these webinars is relative easy, using LinkedIN. First connect with other experts in the field of medical equipment planning, their advice and guidance is priceless. Also, you should join at a minimum the following groups on LinkedIn. AAMI – Technology Management Council this is where most clinical experts network. HIMSS – Health Information and Management Systems Society find information an healthcare informatics on this group. ASHE – American Society of Healthcare Engineering you’ll find more facility and construction information here. Two other great groups are Diagnostic Imaging and Healthcare Design.

The internet is also another resource to look for relevant information related to equipment planning and technology advancement. You can go straight to the vendor’s website, each vendor is different but at the minimum there are brochures and articles. One major medical equipment vendor has training videos on their website.

One final place that relates to imaging equipment is a website called AuntMinnies.com. This is a great source of information, and they also have a buyer’s guide to compare imaging systems.

© 2011 by Mike Swick and William N. Bernstein, LEED®AP, AIA

Well known medical equipment planners, Mike Swick and William Bernstein are senior executives of Equipment Planning, Inc., the premier medical equipment planning company in the United States. With medical equipment planning offices in New York, Cincinnati and Charlotte, Equipment Planning, Inc. (www.equipmentplanning.org) is known for innovative medical equipment planning services for hospitals and healthcare facilities. Additional ways to follow the medical equipment planning news of the firm is through the firm’s medical equipment planning website at www.equipmentplanning.org, medical equipment planning blog at www.equipmentplanning.blogspot.com, and medical equipment planning website Twitter account at www.twitter.com/equipmentplan.

For more information on medical equipment planning, please contact:

Equipment Planners in New York:
Equipment Planning, Inc.
59 West 19th St. - 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
T: 212-463-0800
F: 212-463-9898
Email: info@EquipmentPlanning.org

Equipment Planners in Cincinnati:
Equipment Planning, Inc.
8044 Montgomery Rd. - #700
Cincinnati, Ohio, 45236
T: 513-285-7480
F: 513-285-7481
Email: info@EquipmentPlanning.org

Equipment Planners in Charlotte:
Equipment Planning, Inc.
301 McCullough Drive - 4th Floor
Charlotte, North Carolina 28262
T: 704-245-6830
F: 704-245-6831
Email: info@EquipmentPlanning.org