Competency information
Details
Establish the institution’s equipment holding by value and volume
Considerations
- Key performance indicators appropriate to a medical engineering environment
- How to use engineering principles to identify key information to capture regarding medical devices
- How to specify, procure and implement a medical device information system
- Information needs
- Organisation requirements for medical device-related information to support strategic decision making and operational efficacy
- Medical device information system and the underlying database relationships
- Specific equipment type categorisations and groupings to enable effective analysis and reporting
- Equipment classification
- Equipment holding in the organisation and an understanding of how it is made up, eg revenue versus capital split
- Requirements for performance indicators commonly used to monitor equipment management services
- How to extract information related to maintenance activities, enabling monitoring of work progress
- Capability to produce a range of complex bespoke reports, such as:
- replacement date reports
- activity reports
- reports for wards and departments
- Application of statistical models and analysis to identify equipment related trends, such as device reliability and cost of ownership
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 2 | Outcome The trainee will demonstrate the ability to use a medical device information system to do complex equipment management tasks |