Yale New Haven Health: A Journey to Systemization

Thursday, October 10, 8-9 am

Yale New Haven Health has been on a journey to systemization to align clinical engineering support operations across its seven hospitals and expand clinical engineering’s role in capital planning, project management, operation decision-making and specialized technical support. This presentation will provide an overview of how these different clinical engineering teams comprising of in-house and outsourced resources came together to provide a standardized approach to medical equipment management for over 67,000 devices which yielded significant operational savings, fostered technician growth and optimized equipment use. Additionally, participants will learn how to get a seat at the table and provide valuable clinical engineering insight into strategic business plans, facilities project management, equipment replacement planning and related healthcare technology initiatives.