Frank Painter brings over twenty-five years of clinical engineering and biomedical equipment service management experience to clients in the healthcare industry who want to improve the operational effectiveness, productivity, financial performance and compliance of their technology management programs. His experience directing in-house programs at two large metropolitan teaching hospitals and managing two successful regional
independent
medical equipment service organizations has given him the experience to:
· Evaluate hospital based or outsourced healthcare technology maintenance programs.
· Assist organizations in the transition from one service source to the other.
· Manage major medical equipment acquisition projects, providing assistance in needs assessment, equipment evaluation, selection, procurement and implementation.
Prior to starting his own consulting firm, Mr. Painter was Executive Director of NovaMed Corporation’s Biomedical Technology Services division based in Bridgeport, CT where he specialized in program development, strategic planning and business partnering. He also directed NovaMed’s service operations, customer based maintenance and technology management programs, technology planning and acquisition projects, risk management and quality improvement programs, JCAHO compliance assessment programs as well as provided oversight for all financial aspects of the business operations. Under Painter's management, NovaMed grew 30-50% per year.
As
Director of Biomedical Engineering for two large metropolitan teaching hospitals
Mr. Painter is well acquainted with all aspects of in-house clinical engineering
management as well as providing medical equipment selection consulting; incident
investigation; clinical staff training; safety and quality improvement.
Mr. Painter is internationally recognized in the field of clinical engineering having presented and taught both nationally and internationally. As a consultant to the Pan American Health Organization and the World Health Organization he has been invited to present in Sao Paulo, Beijing, Moscow and Mexico City. He is actively involved in the profession of Clinical Engineering, having been President of the American College of Clinical Engineering and Chairman of the US Board of Examiners for Clinical Engineering Certification.
Mr. Painter has a B.S. in Engineering from Clarkson University and a M.S. in Engineering with a specialty in Biomedical Engineering from SUNY at Buffalo. He is Certified in Clinical Engineering by the International Certification Commission for Clinical Engineering and Biomedical Equipment Technology.