PP03 Development Of A Medical Device Maintenance Management System

Abstract

IntroductionHealth technologies are fundamental in an operational health system. Medical devices, in particular, are crucial for disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. Recognizing this important role of health technologies, the World Health Assembly adopted, in May 2007, resolution WHA60.29, which addresses issues arising from inadequate installation and use of health technologies, as well as the need to formulate national strategies for the implementation of evaluation, planning, procurement and management systems for health technologies, in collaboration with personnel dedicated to the evaluation of health technologies and biomedical engineering. Maintenance management computer systems and software have evolved to help maintain medical equipment and control associated costs. A Computerized Maintenance Management System contains a database about an organization's maintenance operations.MethodsThe pilot study of observational and descriptive design will include all the medical/laboratory equipment that the Research Institute of Health Sciences (IICS) has that meets the inclusion criteria. The work will be carried out at the IICS, which aims to develop a computerized system for the maintenance of equipment that allows the linking of Quick Response (QR) codes to an application (WebApp) by means of cameras in smartphones, able to relate each QR code (attached to a medical/laboratory equipment) to its corresponding URL, and thus able to access all the technical information of each IICS team and therefore monitor their maintenance (preventive, corrective, predictive), history, spare parts, budgets, and technical specifications.ResultsWe have a database of all medical devices installed in the research center; we look forward to developing the program to include the data. The project focuses on the effective tool for decision making regarding the evaluation of the installed sanitary technology and those that will be installed.ConclusionsThe study proposes an effective solution for maintenance management, using data that supports administrative decisions regarding the acquisition of equipment in the future; that is, the system can contribute when it comes to evaluating installed and acquired sanitary technology.