Title :
General Capital Equipment selection process
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Technol. Dev., Univ. Hospital, London, Ont., Canada
Abstract :
A novel Capital Equipment decision process that excludes information Systems equipment has been adopted at University Hospital. The process is administered by a small multidisciplinary committee. Submissions are reviewed and classified, in order to identify equipment for purchase, decline purchase, or defer, as well as identify self-funded equipment (payback within 2 years). These decisions are reached with a set of standardized considerations. Equipment decisions for business enterprises (e.g. cafeteria), self-funded and contingency are processed by an expedited method
Keywords :
biomedical equipment; equipment selection; 2 y; University Hospital; business enterprises; cafeteria; contingency; decline purchase; equipment decisions; expedited method; general Capital Equipment selection process; information Systems equipment; self-funded equipment; small multidisciplinary committee; standardized considerations; Costs; Decision making; Guidelines; Hospitals; Portfolios; Process design;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1995., IEEE 17th Annual Conference
Conference_Location :
Montreal, Que.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-2475-7
DOI :
10.1109/IEMBS.1995.575299
