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HTM Talent Pool is Shrinking W
hether eating at a restaurant, buying parts, ordering tools or refilling a coffee with your monthly subscription, these business models share a common problem. The current challenge facing nearly every industry, as the signs are plastered over business windows and walls, is the one that reads, Help Wanted! As companies and business models transform, the health care industry is at the forefront of this talent and technological paradigm shift. This shift has heightened and potentially exposed the challenges that health care systems and biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) encounter to improve outcomes and career progression of a clinical engineer or healthcare technology management (HTM) associate.
The HTM talent pool is shrinking every day with skilled technicians retiring and the lack of formal technological education for new talent to enter the market ready to handle the advancing technology and the health care environment. The talent pool may be shrinking, but the need and quantity of medical devices in most health care systems are
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growing. The challenge is not just recruiting from a dwindling talent pool. It is also the lack of training venues (I mean insightful holistic medical device training), finding the time to get additional training, hospital budgeting allowances and the changing environment of regulations and OEM requirements. The medical device maintenance and repair business sector (or HTM) is a small group, and even the OEMs struggle with talent as their pricing fluctuates higher to overcome this hurdle. You need a partner that understands your overall situation. A partner that has the skills to navigate all technology challenges, timing and the health care environment. Finding talent or the right partnering company can be challeng-
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ing, considering cost, timing, trust, quality and the essential but almost vanishing art of client interactions skills. These crucial characteristics in our trade are critical for trust, communication and client satisfaction. These skills, or the lack of them, will make your team the hero of your hospital or the heel. SPBS has been servicing and evolving with health care for over 40 years. We understand your hurdles, environment and struggles. We can help in-house or third-party programs during this challenging period in our industry. SPBS is your onestop shop solution. For more information, go to spbs.com.
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