Optimal Medical Equipment Maintenance Service Proposal Decision Support System combining Activity Based Costing (ABC) and the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Author

Da Rocha, Leticia S. ; Sloane, Elliot B. ; Bassani, José W M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Univ. Estadual de Campinas, Sao Paulo

fYear

2005

fDate

6/27/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

7103

Lastpage

7106

Abstract

This study describes a framework to support the choice of the maintenance service (in-house or third party contract) for each category of medical equipment based on: a) the real medical equipment maintenance management system currently used by the biomedical engineering group of the public health system of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas located in Brazil to control the medical equipment maintenance service, b) the activity based costing (ABC) method, and c) the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. Results show the cost and performance related to each type of maintenance service. Decision-makers can use these results to evaluate possible strategies for the categories of equipment

Keywords

activity based costing; biomedical engineering; biomedical equipment; decision making; decision support systems; maintenance engineering; activity based costing; analytic hierarchy process; biomedical engineering group; decision support system; optimal medical equipment maintenance service proposal; public health system; real medical equipment maintenance management system; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Contracts; Control systems; Costing; Decision support systems; Engineering management; Medical control systems; Proposals; Public healthcare; Clinical engineering; state-diagram;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2005. IEEE-EMBS 2005. 27th Annual International Conference of the

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8741-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2005.1616143

Filename

1616143