Benchmarking Resource Enhanced with User-Friendly Features
AAMI has launched a revamped, streamlined program that will enhance the ability of healthcare technology management (HTM) departments to benchmark financial and staffing issues, processes, policies, and procedures.
The benchmarking resource has a new state-of-the-art, user-friendly software platform. An improved interface features survey questions, results, charts, and graphs in an easy-to-use dashboard format. Additionally, subscribers can easily toggle filters to look at specific subsets of data.
| Benchmarking Solutions—
Healthcare Technology Management |
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List: $850 annually/per facility AAMI Member: $750 annually/per facility; |
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| Benchmarking Solutions— Healthcare Technology Management (Results Only) Intended for consultants, manufacturers, and others who do not have hospital data to enter |
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List: $2,400 |
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To order, call +1-877-249-8226, or shop at the AAMI Store at my.aami.org/store. |
The Benchmarking Solutions—Healthcare Technology Management allows for easy data entry. Departments can compare themselves against facilities of comparable size around the world. Subscribers get year-round access and can easily update or analyze their data at any time, as well as ask benchmarking experts questions. Subscribers also will receive an annual benchmarking report of data.
The launch culminates seven months of work by a team of AAMI subject matter experts, as well as previous AAMI collaborator Dynamic Benchmarking, a software developer.
"I am really impressed with the ability of the new benchmarking tool to display data in an easy to understand and useful way," says Frank Painter, clinical engineering program director at the University of Connecticut, who served as one of the experts.
Subscribers will receive a dashboard that makes all components of the tool accessible at the click of a mouse, as well as:
- A streamlined benchmarking survey focusing on the issues of greatest impact
- PowerPoint charts and graphs that can be displayed, printed, or e-mailed
- Results displayed in an easy to read percentile format
- The ability of multihospital system subscribers to create a "peer group" and assess performance
- Instantaneous password reset capability
Painter and Matt Baretich, CCE, PhD, PE, president of Baretich Engineering, Inc., and Ted Cohen, CCE, manager of clinical engineering at University of California, Davis Medical Center—have worked to migrate the survey to the new platform. Subscriber data from the previous benchmarking platform has been added.
AAMI News: June 2013, Vol. 48, No. 6