A typical hospital system has thousands of stationary and mobile medical devices on site and spends millions of dollars on maintenance, purchasing and leasing. Yet, despite the volume of devices, the investment and expense involved, healthcare organizations are overwhelmingly laggard in adopting effective medical device management likely because they dont realize the surprisingly high cost of doing nothing. In this guest post, Bill Parkinson, senior director of life sciences and healthcare at a global information technology company, details six ways doing nothing costs hospitals something.

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