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Keep Up-to-Date with Benchmarking Reading!
AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution (ABS) is a popular web-based tool designed to help clinical engineering departments measure their budgets, personnel, practices, and policies against similar departments at other facilities.

This comprehensive resource includes an online survey featuring nearly 120 benchmarking and best practice measurements; plus a powerful, easy-to-use tool to help CE departments analyze benchmarking data.

What is benchmarked?

Developed by clinical engineering experts, ABS provides detailed benchmarking information on all the important topics:

  • Budgeting levels for maintenance, office expense, training, computers/software, and more
  • Staffing levels allocated to management, repair, and other responsibilities
  • Cost of maintenance contracts
  • Hours spent on maintenance and repair
  • Personnel qualifications and responsibilities
  • Reporting structures
  • Number of devices maintained by a CE program
  • Percentage of scheduled inspections that identify a need for corrective maintenance

Compare, Contrast, Excel!

Once you've entered your data, you're ready: Easily compare your facility to others and customize results from hospitals within a particular regions, type, or size, for example. Vivid tools and charts display the results.

And, you can update your data—and get access to up-to-date information—throughout the year. Plus, you get year-round access to a listserv to ask benchmarking experts questions and share advice and ideas with other subscribers.

3 Ways to Order...

  1. Sign up easily here.
  2. Order online at the AAMI marketplace here.
  3. Or call toll free to 877-249-8226

Annual subscriptions are available for $890 (the AAMI member rate is $760). When ordering, refer to order code "ABS."

Important Note: Discounts are available for those interested in enrolling multiple facilities within a system. To learn more, e-mail to pbernat@aami.org and please specify the number of facilities you wish to enroll.

Another Option: Just the Results Please!

If you want to just view the benchmarking results—and not enter data—that option is available. It’s particularly useful for companies and consultants. The data is in aggregate form, but the information can be sliced and diced as noted above. An annual subscription to the ABS results-only version is $1,490. The AAMI member price is $1,360. The order code is ABS-R; and you can order as noted above.