A Web-based Medical Equipments Management Based on Equipment Service Life-Cycle Model

In the hospital, management of medical equipments is a series of activities from budget planning to equipment disposing. The overall activities focus on issues such as quality, safety, performance, cost, and profit. An efficient and effective management system is necessary for supervising these goals.
In this study, we show how to use a low cost web-based information model based on equipment life-cycle to finish the job. The operations information of medical equipment can be systematic collected and revealed at different life-cycle stages. Audit indicators are used to continually monitoring real operation conditions and improve related adverse events. Through this mechanism, the management integrity, medical care quality, and patient’s safety will be improved. This system consists of four sections namely; the surveillance of maintenance quality, the central regulatory, the utilization benefit, and its emergency response.
Quick and effective decision marking becomes possible by useful operating status from the analysis and supervising of quality control, user satisfaction survey, utilization rate, and revenue contribution provided by the system. The framework of this model has worked well in the NTUH by the increase in availability and efficiency of equipments used.