Keeping up with...new roles in health care: the clinical engineer.
Most managers are well aware of the costs related to purchasing, installing and maintaining sophisticated medical instrumentation. Can these costs be reduced by hiring an in-house clinical engineer? The authors consider a number of alternatives in addressing this one area of soaring medical costs.
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