To get the most out of its preventive maintenance (PM) activities, Technical Services Partnership (TSP) at the University of Vermont first needed to determine the failure rate for various types of healthcare technology. This massive undertaking, deemed the Comprehensive Preventive Maintenance Frequency Adjustment Project, would provide TSP with the data it needed to optimize equipment maintenan...

to improve the efficiency of hospital, reduce patients’ waiting time, as well as meet patients’ satisfaction, the optimization of patients’ queuing system which is based on the knowledge of queuing theory has the practical significance in the use of medical equipments. Based on the relevant data of the usage of Bultrasound in a hospital, the distribution model of queuing theory has been analyze...

We examine the theoretical properties of the proposed auction format for Medicare Durable Medical Equipment. The format was used in a pilot auction in November 2009 covering nine cities and is planned for use in 100 cities in 2010. Two unusual features of the Medicare auction are 1) non-binding bids and 2) a median pricing rule in which winners are paid the median winning bid, rather than the c...

What is the patient’s name? What is the patient’s age? Is this the right patient record to send vital signs data to? Will the ultrasound images be pulled up for the correct patient when the physician views them? Maintaining the security of protected health information (PHI) in medical equipment is necessary to maintain a patient’s basic right to privacy, and to provide safe, effective care. But...

Now-a-days Health Care industry is well equipped with Medical Equipments to provide accurate and timely reports of investigation and examination results. Medical Equipments available in market are made for specific tests suited for a particular laboratory leading to a wide variety of devices. The result viewing experience on console of these devices is not only cumborsome for medical staff but ...

Melodic alarms proposed in the IEC 60601-1-8 standard for medical electrical equipment were tested for learnability and discriminability. Thirty-three non-anaesthetist participants learned the alarms over two sessions of practice, with or without mnemonics suggested in the standard. Fewer than 30% of participants could identify the alarms with 100% accuracy at the end of practice. Confusions pe...

BACKGROUND In 2000, the World Health Organization (WHO) had eight sets of conflicting recommendations for decontaminating medical equipment. We conducted a systematic review of observational studies to assist WHO in reconciling the various guidelines. This paper summarises the methods developed and illustrates the results for three procedures--alcohol, bleach and povidone iodine. METHODS We d...

T commercials are pervasive. Every time I hear the line, “I got a new scooter, and it didn’t cost me a dime,” I get an uneasy feeling, since the main message comes across as how to get “free stuff” from Medicare. It’s not surprising that some of the companies that provide scooters, oxygen, diabetes supplies, and various durable medical equipment (DME) have been investigated for fraud and abuse....