{"title":"The impact of healthcare trends on imaging products and services.","authors":"D Lockwood","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Key factors in healthcare reform--cost, access to care and quality of care--all have implications for diagnostic imaging. Technology is moving rapidly toward being able to provide images quickly, frequently in digital form to radiologists located in other departments or offsite. Film-based imaging still provides the highest resolution currently available and is the most appropriate option for many situations, such as mammography. Hybrid systems that combine film-based capture with electronic image storage and delivery have also been introduced for situations that require simultaneous review by remote clinicians. Healthcare systems will demand equipment that features open architecture and adheres to industry standards. Healthcare providers will form alliances with imaging equipment and consumable suppliers whose products and services offer advantages in quality, productivity and efficiency that lead to an overall decrease in costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 4","pages":"22-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Choosing a digital imaging upgrade over a system replacement.","authors":"D A Helfer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recently, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Heart Institute (SLEH/THI) in Houston evaluated its capital equipment strategy and chose to retrofit nine of its eleven cardiac catheterization laboratories with a digital upgrade for less than two-thirds the cost of a single laboratory replacement. In order to take advantage of budgeted funds, the selection and purchase had to be finished in a seven-month period. A multidisciplinary team was formed to do the technology assessment that led to the choice to upgrade rather than replace. A team consensus was reached on which vendors to trial. Written surveys filled in by physician and technician users who trialed the equipment were tallied to make the final equipment choice. Materiel management played a crucial role in cutting the necessary red tape to meet the purchase deadline.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 4","pages":"30-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"X-ray film duplicators. ECRI.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 4","pages":"41-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Total cost reduction in the laboratory: a team effort.","authors":"R W Forsman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The laboratory has been seen as a revenue source and its product a commodity. In fact, good laboratories have always provided more of a service. As health care strives to reduce the cost of an episode of care, the laboratory may, ironically, incur additional costs to provide testing that contributes to earlier diagnosis and decreased length of stay. Laboratorians working with physicians and the institution must design processes to reduce cost through decreased utilization and improved decision making. Although materiel managers will continue to perform their traditional functions, they will become more involved in helping to select clinically relevant, cost-effective technologies through the technology assessment process. In order to evaluate new methods and equipment, laboratory expenses must be refined to include workload recording of individual tests and cost accounting of supplies, equipment, facilities and reagents.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 3","pages":"14-5, 20, 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21043543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A computerized dispatch system that really delivers.","authors":"J Finney","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 1990, Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario undertook a review of its Central Portering Department. The department's name was changed to Distribution Services and its need for more efficient servicing of customers led to the search for a computer system to replace the manual dispatch operation. After failing to find an existing system, the hospital contracted to develop its own system, called Vic Tracker. The system categorizes and prioritizes requests and produces various activity reports. Response time has improved 50% on average, and improved efficiency and a pre-booking feature has resulted in a decrease of approximately 100 calls per day.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 3","pages":"38-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HC reform update and drug discounting.","authors":"W R Lewis","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 3","pages":"56-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New technologies for laboratory productivity.","authors":"P Lapekas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The laboratory at St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood, MO was experiencing serious inefficiency problems and worker frustration because of its aging wet reagent clinical chemistry analyzers. The hospital replaced the three machines with two complementary Kodak analyzers as a part of a dry slide purchase/equipment lease program and implemented a laboratory information system that interfaces the analyzers with the hospital information system. Among other benefits, test results availability has improved 30%, worker training has gone from two weeks to two to three days and maintenance problems have been eliminated.</p>","PeriodicalId":79670,"journal":{"name":"Journal of healthcare materiel management","volume":"12 3","pages":"30, 32, 34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21006914","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}