Developing an In-house Computerized Maintenance Management System for Hospitals

Abstract

The safety and reliability of medical equipment is mandatory. Equipment may be used on the patients who are unconscious. Other types of medical equipment function as life support and their failure may result in the patient's death when the machine is in use. The maintenance program developed in the research determined the possible remedies for the respective faults and the personnel to rectify the problems. The system was developed to enable the existing facility maintenance managers in major hospitals in Kenya to improve on their maintenance management of the medical equipment. The equipment is initially identified in its category by the program and guides the user to identify the causes of the medical equipment faults and the possible personnel to handle the fault in the equipment. The system would enable the hospitals achieve optimum utilization of hospital equipment and improve the management of medical equipment through a proper time management.

Keywords: Health facilities, Maintenance, Medical equipment