Blumberg D F
D.F. Blumberg & Associates Inc., Fort Washington, PA, USA.
Healthc Financ Manage. 1997 May;51(5):72-4, 76, 78-9.
Four service and support options are available to healthcare organizations for maintaining their growth arsenals of medical and information technology. These options include maintaining and servicing all equipment using a facility-based biomedical engineering and MIS service department; using a combination of facility-based service and subcontracted service; expanding facility-based biomedical and MIS service departments to provide service to other healthcare organizations to achieve economies of scale; and outsourcing all maintenance, repair, and technical support services. Independent service companies and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are offering healthcare organizations a wider array of service and support capabilities than ever before. However, some health systems have successfully developed their own independent service organizations to take care of their own--and other healthcare organizations'--service and support needs.
医疗保健机构有四种服务和支持选项来维持其医疗和信息技术的增长储备。这些选项包括使用基于机构的生物医学工程和管理信息系统服务部门来维护和维修所有设备；结合使用基于机构的服务和外包服务；扩大基于机构的生物医学和管理信息系统服务部门，为其他医疗保健机构提供服务以实现规模经济；以及外包所有维护、维修和技术支持服务。独立服务公司和原始设备制造商（OEM）为医疗保健机构提供了比以往任何时候都更广泛的服务和支持能力。然而，一些医疗系统已经成功地建立了自己的独立服务组织，以满足自身以及其他医疗保健机构的服务和支持需求。
