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Beth Fiedler Roger Bowles

Reid Oetjen

Biomedical EngineeringTechnician Dynamics on

Hospital QualityIntangible Shared Performance Measures

Hospital organizational performance has been largely defined byadministrative data comprised of tangible financial records. Thoughimportant, the hospital environment of care is arguably represented bymultiple inter-professional and intangible factors that influence patientoutcomes that are not cost-driven but service-oriented. In the absence ofuniform standards that address common problems across diverse healthcare facilities such as the association of medical equipment with adverseevents, hospital administrators must view alternative methods to measureeffectiveness, efficiency, and equity. One method is to examine the inter-professional impact of the Biomedical Engineering Technician (BMET)occupation in the hospital Clinical Engineering Department on the level ofhospital quality in the environment of care. The proposition is premised onthe knowledge that 1) the BMET duties are associated with medicalequipment status, and 2) the availability of properly functioning, clean,and timely access to medical equipment that is central to healthcare. Amajor recommendation is the implementation of coordinated care acrossclinical and non-clinical health occupations.

Beth Fiedler

Dr. Fiedler completed her doctorate in Public Affairs,University of Central Florida in Orlando; M.S. inOperations Management at Kettering University inFlint, MI; and an A.S. in Biomedical EngineeringTechnology at Florida State College of Jacksonville.Her research includes policy to improve communityhealth and fiscal conditions.

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