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INTRODUCTION
Healthcare providers worldwide are facing an increasingly competitive environment and, in response, are downsizing to reduce costs and improve efficiency. Providers that are unable or unwilling to become more efficient will close. To stay in business, healthcare institutions must consider the cost of medical equipment and plan accordingly. Policies based on sound principles and experience prevent costly and/or harmful mistakes.
Successful equipment planning is a dynamic process involving an entire team, typically comprising clinicians, architects, and project managers, who are tasked with balancing the needs of patient care, available health care technology, and the realities of the design and construction process.
Medical equipment planners perform a balancing act among those forces while ensuring that all team members have the latest information available on the state of medical equipment in the project.
Much like the design and construction process, medical equipment planning is iterative, meaning it starts with a high-level view of clinical services anticipated and then over time focuses on details. Typically, planning should commence no later than the project’s design development phase to bring the best information on medical equipment to the project team. Few pieces of equipment are model and manufacturer specific at this time, but just as the design increases in detail so does the medical equipment list.
Understanding system requirements
System coordination is an important aspect of hospital design, even more so as digitalization evolves. Lighting, alarms, and ventilation are some examples of systems that must all be synchronized. The operations themselves, the sophisticated apparatus, and the surgical instruments require precise environmental conditions depending on their application.
Managing complex logistics
Implementing new technologies involves a great deal of planning. From pre-design to construction, from proton beam therapy centers to hybrid operating rooms. Use of specialist computer programs for the collaborative design of buildings with colleagues such as the architects and contractors, as well as of tracking equipment specification, progress reporting, and cost estimations.
KEY POINTS OF SUCCESS
There isn’t a guaranteed formula for successful medical equipment planning. However, several steps can be taken to improve the chances of a successful project and mitigate failure.
- Communication is vital among all team members as the project progresses.
- Strong project management with a clear vision can make a tremendous difference in a project, particularly where physician preferences intersect with medical equipment selections.
- Having the medical equipment planner incorporate equipment standards, group purchasing organization contract items, and other hospital-identified models and manufacturers.
- Proactive review and analysis of the equipment list is key to successful medical equipment planning.
SIGNIFICANT MILESTONES IN MEDICAL EQUIPMENT PLANNING
- Preliminary budgeting for financial approvals or certificates of need. The medical equipment planner, at this point, develops a budget figure based on a space program and early discussions with project administration on the vision and expected services for a project.
- Document submissions associated with the design process (e.g., end of schematic design, end of design development). The medical equipment list should be progressing in concert with the architectural and engineering design, and at each submission, the point should be available for issuance to the appropriate parties.
- The third major milestone involves user and project management sign-off of medical equipment lists and plans. This is a vital point for several reasons. First, signoffs can finalize selections on medical equipment that may have been delayed for various reasons. Second, having the team sign-off on the lists also limits the possibility of conflict over the selections of medical equipment at later points in the project.
EQUIPMENT SPECIFICATIONS
A typical specification could include the following sections:
- Scope of equipment and project
- Standards, Codes, and Specifications
- Definitions and Terminology
- Materials of Construction
- Design Basis & Mechanical/ Fabrication
- Guarantees
- Testing and Inspection
- Documentation
- Shipping.
The specifications must be concise enough to ensure that the supplier clearly understands what is required to be supplied.
Life Cycle Planning
A life cycle plan is generally a database associated with an asset register and used when developing the tasks needed to properly maintain the facility, plant, or process equipment.
The benefits of lifecycle planning include:
- Providing a sound basis for making investment, maintenance and disposal decisions
- Providing explicit consideration to the optimal balance of operating and maintenance costs relative to capital works investment/ procurement costs
- Capital costs are considered with the knowledge of the consequential impact on life-cycle costs.
CONCLUSION
Medical equipment planning can greatly increase the likelihood of a project meeting the owners’ vision of patient care in their new facility. Good medical equipment planning adjusts to the hospital’s vision of the project while steering them through the issues of health care technology, equipment infrastructure requirements, and procurement tasks. It brings the various team members’ goals and missions to bear on the equipment selected for a new facility and navigates the always present challenges inherent in any project.
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