Posts by Jessie Forrest
Your Preventative Maintenance Backlog Doesn’t Get Better by Ignoring It
Braden Mackay and Nicole Palmer We’ve all done it. You open your CMMS. You see 1,742 open work orders. You quietly close the laptop. Maybe tomorrow. The problem with preventive maintenance is that it behaves a lot like laundry. Ignore it for a week? Not terrible. Ignore it for two months? Now you’re questioning every…
Read MoreWhat Surveyors Really Want. Hint – They’re Not Trying to Ruin Your Week
By Dalene Anderson & Nicole Palmer If you’ve worked in healthcare long enough, you’ve probably heard some version of this sentence: “The Joint Commission is in the lobby.” Nothing spikes your heart rate quite like those six words. Suddenly everyone starts walking a little faster. Someone is frantically looking for a work order from 2021….
Read MoreThe Importance of Trust: Why Relationships Between Biomeds and Hospital Staff Matter
Biomedical technicians often work behind the scenes, but their relationship with hospital staff plays a critical role in patient safety and healthcare operations. The strongest healthcare environments are built on open, honest, and productive communication between clinical teams and biomedical engineering departments. Without trust and collaboration, important equipment concerns can go unreported, small issues can…
Read MoreWhy Medical Equipment Inventories Are Worth Every Penny
Picture this: A nurse needs an infusion pump. The nurse calls Biomed. Biomed checks the CMMS and sees there should be three available pumps in the department. The nurse can’t find them. Biomed can’t find them. The department manager can’t find them. Twenty minutes, six phone calls, and one growing headache later, someone discovers the…
Read MoreMeasuring What Matters: The Truth About Biomed Productivity
In biomedical engineering, productivity is often measured by one simple metric: how many preventive maintenance inspections were completed. But anyone who truly understands healthcare technology management knows productivity is far more complex than closing work orders. A high-performing biomedical technician is not simply someone who moves quickly from room to room checking boxes. True productivity…
Read MoreThe Unseen Heroes of Healthcare: Why Biomedical Technicians Matter More Than Ever
When people think about healthcare heroes, they often picture doctors, nurses, and first responders. Rarely do they think about the biomedical technician quietly working in a basement shop, hallway, operating room, clinic, or patient unit ensuring the equipment behind modern medicine is functioning safely and accurately. But they should. Biomedical professionals are some of the…
Read MoreThe Medical Equipment Reality Check
When Was the Last Time Your Database Matched the Hospital? Let’s start with an honest question. If you walked through your hospital right now and compared every device on the floor with what’s listed in the asset database… how close would the two actually match? Pretty close?Mostly close?Or “Let’s not talk about it”? If you’ve…
Read MoreAre Your Medical Devices a Cybersecurity Risk
RTLS, Ransomware, and the New Reality for Biomeds Not that long ago, biomedical technicians mostly worried about things like blown fuses, worn cables, and whether someone spilled coffee into a patient monitor. Today? There’s a good chance you’re also hearing about network vulnerabilities, ransomware threats, and firmware patches before your first cup of coffee. Medical…
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