Questions To Help OCEA Move Forward

The Ohio Clinical Engineering Association is your association and the how it functions and how it serves you is your decision. The Operations Committee functions to direct your organization to accomplish what you would like to have happening. Recently, the OCEA Mission Statement was updated to better reflect the organization’s purpose:

“To promote the Biomedical/Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Management Profession to the public and the entire healthcare industry as well as provide opportunities for professional development and growth to help our members to stay current in this ever expanding technological field.”

Please provide answers to the questions below. This information is needed to help formulate the future direction of OCEA. Thank you in advance for your help and participation.

Educational Topics

What would you like to learn more about?

What areas could we utilize OEM’s for training?

Does your organization have an interest in Benchmarking?

What do you want benchmarked?

What metrics do you use now?

What would you measure if you could?

Would you measure Efficiency of technicians?

Would you measure Cost of Ownership of a device? i.e. Acquisition cost + Service Time + Parts Cost + Allocation of Overhead + Cost of Downtime, etc.

How would you measure? By # of devices --- By value of equipment --- By modality

Career Pathing

Where do you want to go in your career?

What are the Educational Requirements needed?

Are Management Training options available to you and are you interested?

Are you interested in Cross Training by modality or other methods?

Financial Modeling, Budgeting, Workflow Analysis, Manpower Planning. Do you need help in any of these areas? Please list or describe any other area where you feel you need help.

OCEA Committee

Several current committee members will be retiring this year. New Thinkers and Participants are needed to keep OCEA moving forward. Managing a state association is a large job responsibility unless it is broken down into smaller parts and it is the work of the individuals doing these smaller parts that result in the overall organization success. OCEA has a President and four Regional Vice Presidents. There are other positions such as Secretary, Treasurer, Education Coordinator, and Special Events Manager as well as other positions appointed by the committee. It is time to review this structure and decide if changes are needed for the future.

Is this the Structure that OCEA should continue with?

If not then how should the structure be set up?

Several possible new committee positions have been identified to help better manage OCEA.

Volunteers are needed for these positions:

- Corporate Business Member And Sponsor Liaison
- Individual Member Liaison/Secretary
- Association Research Coordinator
- News And Newsletter Manager
- Information Blog Coordinator
- Information Blog Contributor(s)
- Website Manager
- Meeting Coordinator/Manager
- Online Accounting Manager
- Email Manager

Please offer other suggestions, ideas, and other information that you think will impact this process. We will discuss all of these items at our upcoming meeting.

I am interested and want to help. I would like to be contacted by an Operation's Committee member. Here is what I would like to do:

Final Thoughts and Additional Comments:

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