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In this month’s Director’s Circle, ICE Magazine asked imaging directors and other leaders to share their insights regarding training. Continue reading to find out what to look for when seeking training as well as how training has changed in recent years.

DirectMed offers training on the latest technology in Siemens imaging equipment, from basic to expert engineer level. The course phases allow engineers to learn at a pace that is efficient for and effective for them. All courses are AAMI Certified and provide continuing education units.

The FlexForce Tech program from Siemens Healthineers connects health care institutions with temporary or permanent, fully vetted radiologic technologists trained by Siemens Healthineers and supported throughout their clinical engagements.

PartsSource is the leading technology and enterprise software platform for managing mission-critical health care equipment. With the mission of ensuring health care is always on, PartsSource empowers owners and operators of mission-critical equipment to maximize clinical availability and patient throughput, while achieving sustainable savings and efficiencies. 

While leaders often champion failure as a stepping stone to success, this narrative overlooks a harsh reality: the double standard of failure faced by underrepresented populations within our imaging teams.

This is a well-understood experience of interacting with the U.S. health care system. We know that 20 percent of the cost of health care in the U.S. is related to administration. This is an opportunity area we should focus on when we brainstorm on artificial intelligence’s role in health care.

At GE HealthCare, technical service training embraces a modern, skills-based learning strategy which resonates with our newer workforce, helps to increase the effectiveness of training, occurs in the flow of work (immediately deployable), and is consistently transportable across modalities.