Selecting and Purchasing Clinical Equipment

Selecting and using nebuliser equipment.

Purchasing equipment for an eye unit

Who is responsible? The manager of the eye care unit is ultimately responsible for ensuring that equipment and supplies are adequate. However, the manager may delegate a member of the team to act as the ‘equipment person’. This person will have some responsibilities for ordering and will also be responsible for keeping the equipment inventory up to date. The inventory should contain information...

Selecting Earthmoving Equipment Fleets Using Genetic Algorithms

This paper presents an application of simulation optimization in construction utilizing genetic algorithms. The paper focuses on the use of genetic algorithms (GAs) as a tool for optimizing the total cost of earthmoving operations accounting for available equipment models to contractors and their corresponding quantities. The developed genetic algorithm has a powerful computational utility that...

Understanding managerial preferences in selecting equipment

Industry continues to look for methods of gaining competitive advantage through manufacturing techniques. These techniques, however, can be matched by competitors if used without the guidance of a strategic framework. Similarly, structural capacity choices can be matched by competitors without the infrastructural benefits of a well defined operations strategy. In this study, multiattribute util...

Purchasing of medical equipment in public hospitals: the mini-HTA tool.

The mini-health technology assessment (HTA) tool is valuable in assessing the quality of decisions regarding health technology management in South African public hospitals. The tool demonstrates the needs for improved decision-making and for developing an appropriate, customised instrument to support decision makers regarding medical device management. Health technology in South Africa has c...