Texas Hospital Signs onto AAMI’s Benchmarking Resource
A nationally recognized Texas hospital has signed on as the newest subscriber to AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution.
Officials at Texas Children’s Hospital — which has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report this year as one of America’s best children’s hospitals — say they will rely on AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution to continue to promote excellence at their facility.
“AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution offers methodology to help biomedical/clinical engineering programs understand, measure, and compare their progress with those of other institutions of all types and sizes,” says Samantha Jacques, director of biomedical engineering. “This allows for development of best practices, fostering learning and collaboration with other biomedical/clinical engineering departments across the nation.”
Texas Children’s Hospital is the most recent subscriber to AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution — an online tool released earlier this year that helps clinical engineering programs measure their practices, policies, and procedures against similar departments at other facilities, monitor their progress throughout the year, and share best practices.
Nearly 120 hospitals have already subscribed to the tool, which is available on an annual subscription basis. (For more information, visit www.aami.org/abs.)
Benchmarking data is gleaned from responses to more than 120 questions focusing on a program’s staffing levels, scheduled inspections, budgets, reporting structures, and more. The information is then displayed on a numerical calculation report along with other charts and graphs to show the findings of your department and the findings of similar hospitals of size, geographic area, and type.
Once you enter your benchmarking data, the information is then displayed on numerical calculation reports and other charts and graphs to show the findings of your department and the findings of similar hospitals of size, geographic area, type and more. Subscribers are given a “survey code” to ensure the privacy of their data and results.
During a recent online demonstration, clinical engineering experts who developed AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution responded to dozens of questions from participants — ranging from whether it matters if a hospital has in-house clinical engineering program or is outsourced, and how subscribers can get the most out of the vivid charts and graphs contained in the tool.
During a year-long subscription to AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution, you can also update your data and analyze the most current information available whenever you’d like.
As an added benefit, AAMI has launched a new Benchmarking Discussion Group, an e-Forum in which subscribers of AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution can seek regular advice from leading benchmarking experts, ask questions, and discuss benchmarking trends with others in the profession.
A subscription to AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution is available for $890 a year — or $760 if you are an AAMI member.
For more information on AAMI’s Benchmarking Solution, visit www.aami.org/abs.