PCD Brief Profile Proposal MEM: Difference between revisions

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1. Proposed Workitem: White Paper - Medical Equipment Management (MEM)

Proposal Editor: Todd Cooper, Manny Furst
Editor: Steve Merritt
Date: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
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Domain: PCD

NOTE: This work item proposal is based on the MEM whitepaper released in Sept. 2009: PCD_MEM_WP_Discussion

2. The Problem

Medical equipment is quickly becoming less manageable by traditional methods. Most healthcare delivery organizations (HDO) must manage tens of thousands of medical devices representing numerous makes and models. The management of these devices involves a wide array of activities including planning, procurement, inspection, inventory, testing, monitoring, maintanence, and de-commissioning. Common activities include unique device identification, ongoing or periodic determination of the device's location, operational status, battery level and charging profile, software / hardware configuration including serial numbers, pending upgrades or software updates, remote maintanence, and risk management. Traditionally medical devices have functioned as stand alone, or perhaps locally networked without the capability to transmit information outside of their own realm. As more equipment becomes connected to the enterprise network, it would be beneficial to equipment management activities to also be able to use these networking capabilities. Currently there are no common standards-based technologies for supporting these device management and maintenance activies. There are several vendor dependant methods in use across the industry showing that this is possible.

There are several potential benefits of this electronic approach to medical equipment management.

Increases in patient safety by having safer, more reliable equipment available to clinicians when and where they need it
Reducing equipment failures through proactive maintanence
Managing the risk associated with networking medical devices
Making sure devices are configured correctly
Evidence based maintanence planning could be fully realized with the automated, electronic reporting of maintanence information, this could allowdevices to be scheduled for maintence when they actually need it
Devices could also be more effectively used requiring less inventory.

3. Key Use Case

4. Proposed Topics / Outline

5. Discussion

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 ==2. The Problem==
-The appropriate management of medical equipment is vital for ensuring safe, effective, timely, efficient, and equitable healthcare, yet management of medical equipment is quickly becoming less effective by traditional methods. Most healthcare delivery organizations (HDO) must manage tens of thousands of medical devices. The management of these devices involves a wide array of activities including planning, procurement, inspection, inventory, testing, monitoring, maintanence, and de-commissioning. Many of these devices are becoming networked, but there are no common standards-based technologies for supporting these device management & maintenance activies. The technology profiles presented here address both the actors and transactions that are required to perform management activites, as well as the basic content that is needed to perform specific tasks (e.g., device identification, or representation of battery charge status)
+Medical equipment is quickly becoming less manageable by traditional methods. Most healthcare delivery organizations (HDO) must manage tens of thousands of medical devices representing numerous makes and models. The management of these devices involves a wide array of activities including planning, procurement, inspection, inventory, testing, monitoring, maintanence, and de-commissioning. Common activities include unique device identification, ongoing or periodic determination of the device's location, operational status, battery level and charging profile, software / hardware configuration including serial numbers, pending upgrades or software updates, remote maintanence, and risk management.
+Traditionally medical devices have functioned as stand alone, or perhaps locally networked without the capability to transmit information outside of their own realm. As more equipment becomes connected to the enterprise network, it would be beneficial to equipment management activities to also be able to use these networking capabilities. Currently there are no common standards-based technologies for supporting these device management and maintenance activies. There are several vendor dependant methods in use across the industry showing that this is possible.
+There are several potential benefits of this electronic approach to medical equipment management.
+* Increases in patient safety by having safer, more reliable equipment available to clinicians when and where they need it
+* Reducing equipment failures through proactive maintanence
+* Managing the risk associated with networking medical devices
+* Making sure devices are configured correctly
+* Evidence based maintanence planning could be fully realized with the automated, electronic reporting of maintanence information, this could allowdevices to be scheduled for maintence when they actually need it
+* Devices could also be more effectively used requiring less inventory.
 ==3. Key Use Case==