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Special Guest: Matthew F. Baretich, PE, PhD, president of Baretich Engineering Inc, Fort Collins, Colo.

The data a clinical engineering department needs to collect to begin benchmarking is very important to the process. Matthew F. Baretich, PE, PhD, president of Baretich Engineering Inc, Fort Collins, Colo, will identify the information a clinical engineering department needs to gather to fully utilize new benchmarking programs that are now available. This data is critical to demonstrating whether departments are hitting the targets they set in their benchmarking efforts.

Baretich's company provides consulting services in clinical engineering, health care facilities engineering, and forensic engineering. He is currently writing a manual for the World Health Organization on corrective maintenance for medical devices in developing countries.