suggest that there could be additional benefits from this aspect by universal application of one cost assessment system. Finally, that the the Regulatory Compliance equity component— Regulatory Reporting, indicate universal distribution of regulatory data can elevate quality roughly at a rate of 1:1.139. As with other ratios presented, this indicates that for each single exchange, quality will increase slightly more than one or better. In summary, the BEI Survey responses were analyzed in the SEM model indicating that BMET effectiveness in Clinical Engineering represents the most significant aspect of their contribution to the hospital level of quality. Results confirm that hospital environments that create a coordinated organizational culture of interdepartmental medical device management through communication, collaboration, teamwork, and knowledge management with the biomedical engineering department can promote quality and therefore, reduce adverse events. Administrators can manage and improve quality through employing simple, effective and efficient solutions such as 1) updating internal hospital policy to require regularly scheduled meetings between nursing and biomedical staff regarding equipment issues, 2) linking the BMET department goals to organization objectives, 3) interdepartmental
reporting of hospital acquired infections, 4) budgeting for equipment manuals and 5) implementing training infection control strategies that include the BMET function.