4 Tips for Maintaining Medical Equipment at Your Facility

A medical equipment company can help you avoid extra maintenance costs when your medical equipment breaks down. Maintaining medical equipment takes detailed attention and is not an easy feat. The following tips are useful if you’re looking to maintain your facility’s equipment.

1. Obtain Manufacturer Support

More often than not, the facility’s biomedical engineers can diagnose equipment issues and solve them. However, they may have an inadequate familiarity with the vital components of the machines. You may be required to seek the help of equipment manufacturers. Keep vendor and warranty records to guarantee smooth maintenance schedules.

2. Perform Regular Inventory Analysis

Establish a Medical Equipment Management Committee (MEMC), which will design an inventory analysis based on the following scale:

• Expound on the role of service delivery at all levels and also outline the facility’s vision.
• Compare the vision with the recommended standard equipment list.
• Calculate the medical equipment service shortfalls in each sector and compare the outcomes with the standard list.
• Review and identify the new services at your facility and then assess equipment needs for these services.
• Determine equipment rehabilitation needs by designing an Equipment Development Plan (EDP), which showcases the current stock, condition, and shortfalls of the medical equipment.

3. Lifecycle Management

Medical equipment has a lifespan. This means you’ll need to track your medical assets throughout their lifespan to enable smooth maintenance processes. An efficient way of achieving this is by automating lifecycle management. Design a software program that can trace the usage history of all medical equipment. You can then create a schedule on when the equipment needs to be maintained.

4. Design a Medical Management Software

Most businesses prefer automation rather than manual processes. Healthcare should be no different. When you develop a management software, it helps you deal with:

• Asset tracking
• Vendor and staff management
• Compliance regulation
• Equipment maintenance

The above solutions help your biomedical engineers create preventive maintenance routines, preventing untimely breakdowns.

Conclusion

Designing medical management software, tracking lifecycle management, obtaining manufacturer support, and formulating a MEMC extends the lifespan of your equipment. Visit Coast Biomedical to learn more about the medical equipment services we offer.