title: Going into business.
abstract: Looking for a way to fight downsizing and add intrinsic value to your clinical engineering shop? Some in-house clinical engineering departments have converted costly operations into cost-effective enterprises by selling their technology and business skills to non-affiliated health care facilities.
authors.forename: Deb
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lehman
mesh_terms: D001698:Biomedical Engineering / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D008284:Maintenance and Engineering, Hospital / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D010934:Planning Techniques; D014481:United States