PCD Brief Profile Proposal MEM

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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)
  • Version: N/A (Wiki keeps history)
  • Domain: PCD

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

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)

3. Key Use Case

4. Proposed Topics / Outline

5. Discussion

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