| Dato: | 08.01.2009 |
| Tema: | Medical Equipment |
| Forfatter: | Manfred Wolf |
ABSTRACT
Modern health care is not thinkable without medical and information technology. There is a rapid growing market of devices dedicated to support diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitation procedures and purposes. But to avoid miss-investment and to meet requirements of hospitals, physicians, nurses and patient needs there have to be a systematic organizational approach to make a “best choice” and to establish a reliable IT-based service infrastructure .
To our experience it is extremely important not only to focus on efficacy of medical devices but also on efficiency, reliability and safety during the life-time of a system. Also failures and breakdowns have to be anticipated .
Strategic equipment management will miss its objectives if it focuses only on the single unit but takes not into account the surrounding “system of devices” and the overall equipment and treatment system. Any failure in the surrounding and overall system, any missing link in the operating scheme and networks may cause an equipment failure or breakdown.An overall strategic approach on equipment management eventually has to be based on an appropriate web-based knowledge-management system and controlling and specific equipment management-information tools.
Based on more than 25 years of experience in equipment planning, management, consulting and service business development the lecture will give an overview on objectives and tasks for Technical Service Centres , TSC