Optimizing Expensive Medical Device Utilization in Hospital Systems

At the HFMA Annual Conference, Healthcare Scene had a chance to interview Brett Reed, CEO of Cohealo, where we learned about their unique approach to expensive medical equipment in hospitals and health systems. We loved their novel approach to helping hospitals and health systems save money and better utilize the assets they’ve already purchased since it’s not something we’d seen many healthcare organizations do effectively. Most have been too distracted by their EHR implementations to think about this. Now’s a great time to move past the EHR into other technologies that can help a hospital or health system.

In our interview, Brett shares the origin of the company and how Cohealo can help a healthcare organization with tracking equipment, sharing equipment, and managing equipment requests. Considering the cost of these expensive medical devices, there are a lot of opportunities for healthcare organizations to save or make more money by using these underutilized resources more effectively.

To learn more, watch the video interview below or on the Healthcare Scene YouTube channel.

If you enjoyed this video interview, be sure to check out the full list of Healthcare Scene interviews.

Also, let us know what you thought of our interview with Brett Reed from Cohealo. Do you think this is a valuable solution? Are you doing this type of medical device tracking in your organization? Do you hear the complaints from nurses and providers that there’s not enough medical equipment for them to do their job effectively? Let us hear your thoughts in the comments or on Twitter @HealthcareScene.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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