Title :
Medical Equipment Quality Assurance by Making Continuous Improvement to the System
Author :
Medhat, N. ; Samy, S.A. ; Wahed, Manal Abdel ; Mohamed, A.S.A.
Author_Institution :
Biomed. Eng. Dept., Minia Univ.
Abstract :
In today´s complex health care environment, quality improvement must be at hospitals. In this paper, total productive maintenance (TPM), equipment reliability, failure probability and mean time between failures (MTBF) are used to evaluate the medical equipment performance and/or effectiveness. Measurement is an important requirement of continuous improvement process. It is necessary to establish appropriate metrics for measurement purpose then monitoring will indicate the occurrence of improvement in the system. The objective of quantifying is to be able to measure the quality of a system.
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; continuous improvement; failure analysis; health care; maintenance engineering; quality assurance; reliability; TPM; complex health care environment; continuous improvement process; failure probability; medical equipment performance; quality assurance; quality improvement; quality measurement; reliability; total productive maintenance; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical equipment; Continuous improvement; Cost function; Environmental economics; Maintenance engineering; Productivity; Profitability; Quality assurance; Weapons; Medical equipment; Quality assurance; TPM;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering Conference, 2008. CIBEC 2008. Cairo International
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2694-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2695-9
DOI :
10.1109/CIBEC.2008.4786104
