What is the difference between Medical Equipment Planning and Medical Equipment Project Management?
Over the years, the term medical equipment planning has evolved and become almost generic in its use, covering a broad array of services relating to equipment and medical facility development. In the early days of medical facility development, the requirements for equipment planning were not nearly as complex, nor was the equipment itself. Equipment planning, in the early days, normally consisted of budgeting, specifying, and coordinating equipment but the procurement, installation, commissioning, etc were, more often than not, performed by the facility or the facility simply signed quotations from various vendors. With the ever increasing quantity and variety of medical equipment and its sources, coupled with the way that it is sold and the tremendous potential price variances, there has developed a need for procurement to be part of the planning process. Other than internal equipment planning departments in large hospital management companies, HELP Equipment Planning was the first me
