Clinical Engineering & Biomed Consulting
BENEFITS TO YOU
Increase Technology
Lifecycle
Maximize your capital investment ROI with a straightforward process to eliminate complex
multi vendor programs.
Customized
Solutions
Whether Self-Operated or Contracted to a 3rd party our consultants analyze operations, contracts and staffing options putting a comprehensive support service solution in place.
No Risk,
Guaranteed
Setting clear parameters to improve clinical efficiency, we partner with you to achieve savings and improved quality outcomes. We win when you win - only when you see bottom line results.
Soriant offers the intersection of medical technology and clinical practice, making sound economic decisions for:
- Purchasing
- Implementation
- Process Management
WE FOCUS ON 4 KEY AREAS TO DELIVER LASTING VALUE
2. PEOPLE
A Lean Six Sigma Team driving transformative change
4. PARTNERSHIP
Success – People like working with kind, caring and competent people
1. ASSESSMENT
3. TECHNOLOGY
1. ASSESSMENT
2. PEOPLE
A Lean Six Sigma Team driving transformative change
3. TECHNOLOGY
4. PARTNERSHIP
Success – People like working with kind, caring and competent people
Why Soriant?
By partnering with Soriant, your clinical engineering services can boost bottom line results. We can:
- Evaluate and provide in-house, shared service, vendor or third-party medical device support
- Provide analysis of labor needs against service demand
- Identify and reduce unnecessary or surplus equipment
- Review and prolong equipment life cycles
- Assess time and cost-saving technology options
- Lower overall equipment maintenance costs while meeting industry standards
- Balance and negotiate equipment service contracts to maximize manufacturer support and in-house care
- Adjust service cost components to improve quality and operational efficiency
- Manage RFP/RFI processes when switching to a new service provider
Our healthcare consultants can find the optimal solution to improve your hospital’s clinical engineering department. Combined with innovative strategies in other services and sectors, Soriant can boost your facility’s yearly earnings and provide staff and patients with a better all around experience.
Client Success Stories
Blog Articles
Reducing Clinical Equipment Service Costs
Hospitals realize that they are spending a great deal in the area of equipment service. Even with this knowledge, at times, hospital administrators do not know exactly how much they are spending on diagnostic clinical equipment maintenance. It is challenging to determine the actual cost for several reasons: Service contract
Your Support Services Team
Is Your Support Service Team Part of Your Clinical Team? When patients enter your hospital they use everything they see, smell and hear to make judgments about the quality of services they are receiving. Whether or not you realize it, the support service departments (Food, Environmental Services, Security, Clinical Engineering,
BioMed Costs Increasing – a Reality Check
There is no question that clinical equipment service costs are rising and impacting the bottom line. How can hospital leadership face the challenges of providing superior quality of service at costs that are palatable? The solution can be easier than you think, at Soriant Solutions we partner and guide toward
Top 4 Sources of Savings in Support Services – HFM Magazine
Soriant is proud to have contributed to HFM magazine this month with a feature story co-authored by our own Brian Nugent. The article is titled “Top 4 Sources of Savings in Support Services” and provides examples of ways hospitals can reduce support-service costs. Brian’s co-author, Conrad Emmerich, knows first hand
Which is better….outsourced…or in house?
There was a recent LinkedIn chat asking the question: “Which was better…outsourced…or in house Clinical Engineering Services?” Of course, that question lead to numerous responses….many with very strong polarizing opinions, and horror stories. The chat hit a spark and has ongoing for months and will probably continue for a long
Hospital Equipment Management: The Challenge of BioMed Cost Benchmarks
Hospital Equipment management COOs or CFOs frequently ask if there are practical benchmark metrics to assess whether their equipment service costs are appropriate. Frustration about increasing costs or acquisition costs of new technology, often not planned for by administrators, is becoming more common. Even biomedical leaders in hospitals struggle to
COVID-19 and your Clinical Engineering Department
The lack of ventilators, the differences between ventilators, and the importance of finding a reliable supply of ventilators. These specific needs were glaring at providers the first few weeks in March, as hospitals prepared for the surge of COVID-19 patients. As leadership turned to their Clinical Engineering departments for
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s challenging to compare biomedical departments across facilities. The scope of hospital equipment management covered by individual biomedical departments varies widely from one hospital to another. Some programs include imaging equipment and some cover beds, whereas others don’t encompass ventilations or anesthesia. The variations are endless. Since there is no common scope and each department is different, they each involve different labor requirements, inventories, and ultimately cost.
The size of the facility, scope of equipment covered, and the geography where the hospital is located will help define the best solution. OEM service agreements insure that you have highly competent technicians working on the equipment but it is important to define the right level of coverage and hospitals pay a premium for this type of service. If managing a department in-house hospitals must invest in the human resource capital and ongoing skills development to insure that the technicians can maintain the equipment effectively. Most organization will adopt a model that balances the best of both to have a comprehensive program focused on efficient cost management and equipment uptime.
