A Information Management Strategy for In-House Clinical Engineering Department Based on Equipment Service Life-Cycle Model

In the hospital, the 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 an equipment service life-cycle model applied in these activities for in-house clinical engineering department. Some information systems were built by the model and the information of management operations in clinical engineering department can be systematic collected and revealed at different life-cycle stages by these systems. Through the model, we can easily integrate the management activities and improve medical care quality and patient’s safety. The model will be introduced in the method section and four systems which are medical equipment management system, utilization benefit administrative system, regulatory management system, and emergency management system will be shown in the results section. The framework of this model has worked well in National Taiwan University Hospital.