Stephen L. Grimes

Managing Partner & Principal Consultant @Strategic Healthcare Technology Associates, Llc

Boston, MA, US

The future of medical technologies has the potential to transform healthcare delivery so as to help ensure consistent, high quality care irrespective of the patient treatment venue. But these benefits are not guaranteed and it is only through the judicious selection, deployment, use and support of medical technology that healthcare organizations can realize the full potential of these technologies avoid and costly mistakes.Today both healthcare and new medical technologies are evolving at such at rapid pace that organization leaders are increasingly faced with challenges associated with rising costs, making the right technology-related decisions, selecting the right technical support options, complying with significant new medical technology regulations, and ensuring new technologies are used in a manner that improves the quality and safety of patient care.A widely acknowledged subject matter expert in healthcare technology management with extensive consulting experience in assisting healthcare providers (both hospitals and enterprise networks) in developing and implementing plans to migrate their existing technical support processes and services (e.g, in-house, contracts, 3rd party service) to a comprehensive and integrated approach best tailored to meet their support needs for the next 10 to 15 years.Experienced providing medical technology service and support organizations (including vendors and independent service organizations) with guidance on industry trends, the nature of future service offerings, and how to reach and successfully engage the new decision makers.

Purdue University

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