Strategic impact of the changing healthcare landscape

Author

Gans, Bruce M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Phys. Med. & Rehabilitation, Wayne State Univ. Sch. of Med., Detroit, MI, USA

Volume

6

fYear

1997

fDate

30 Oct-2 Nov 1997

Firstpage

2670

Abstract

Dramatic changes are occurring in the health care industry. These will have profound implications for the technology provided and supported by clinical engineers. Healthcare has been transformed from a service to a product. Market forces, legislation and regulation have driven this change. New definitions of the customers for clinical engineering services have been created. Demands from these new customers are driving new expectations for lower costs, innovative functions and non-traditional environments of service delivery. Clinical engineers will need to respond to these challenges and opportunities by innovating, integrating, and becoming even more customer-conscious

Keywords

biomedical engineering; commerce; health care; legislation; management of change; changing healthcare landscape; clinical engineering services; clinical engineers; costs; customer-consciousness; customers; health care industry; innovative functions; legislation; market forces; nontraditional environments; regulation; service delivery; strategic impact; technology provision; Absorption; Banking; Biomedical engineering; Clinical diagnosis; Cost function; Gallium nitride; Layout; Legislation; Manufacturing industries; Medical services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997. Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4262-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.1997.756882

Filename

756882