Effective needs of health technology needs cooperation

Correct maintenance of equipment Health technology It is necessary to ensure maximum efficiency and safety during your useful life. Although it is not always considered the importance and priority it deserves in public policies. This critical service must have its importance in terms of Investment and training Of its technicians, because it has a direct impact on patients and professionals and Sustainability of the health system.

For this a Cooperative approach Among all actors: departments, managers, companies, health professionals and engineers. It is one of the great conclusions of the last discussion with four experts organizing it Medical writing With cooperation Spanish Federation for Health Technology Companies ((Venin).

In fact, Venin recently published ‘Good health technology maintenance guide‘, A reference tool for health technology companies, hospitals, health centers, support services that combine the recommendations of the European Coordination Committee for the radiology, electrombe and health technology sector (Cook).

“The maintenance was always Forget the Great. They say they only remember him when there are problems. ” Jose Luis Lopez GonzalezThe head of the Spanish Association of Hospital Engineering (AEIH).

Why does this happen? In opinion Raquel cánovas paradellMember of the Spanish Association of Electrical Engineering and Clinical Engineering (SEYIC) and the Director of Technology in Val Digron Hospital (Barcelona), it is partly, because the focus on renewing and implementing equipment (such as a plan catharsis) This looks more than “Silent maintenance“.

This has direct consequences for patient safety, and also in workers in healthcare staff. “we Diagnosis and treatments modeAt this stage, the president of AEIH says that all the participants in the discussion were supporting his solution with a A comprehensive and participatory approach Among all actors in the healthy ecosystem.

Raquel Cánovas Paradell, a member of the Spanish Association of Electrical Engineering and Clinical Engineering (SEYIC) and director of technology at Val Digron Hospital (Barcelona).

A strategy on equipment maintenance

Experts agree that it is necessary to clarify a A planned strategy at the national level. Although it is true that part of Statute of limitations It is presented through the technological development itself, and maintenance is vital for good planning for equipment, as well as Sustainability guarantee And contribute to any unexpected expenses.

Manil Rodriguez BarnaVice -head of the technology and clinical information sector in Vinin, suggests that the thinking plan Advanced evolutionary maintenance modelsThis combines the traditional (preventive and corrective) view with updates. “This allows the inclusion of developments that can make the team’s life cycle long, and in this way, it contributes to the sustainability of the health system.”

Manell RodríGuez Barrena, Vice President of the Technology and Clinical Information System in Venin.

As for the strategic budget approach, there is the problem. As shown Jose Antonio Rodriguez LevaMember of the Board of Directors of the Technology Sector and Clinical Information Systems in Vinin and the General Manager of Services of Comprehensive Electromed Medical Medicine (SISEMED), maintenance It is seen as expenses And not as an investment. “If we accept that maintenance is an investment for health care, we will start thinking that it is necessary.”

This does not mean that the budget is missing or the costs are high. The question to be asked is What is “price” if health technology fails Because of the lack of maintenance.

Speakers analyze the rescue plan, which renewed health technology in Spain, but did not consider maintenance costs.

“You have to take into account Maintenance costs for useful life. The rescue plan, which led He did not think about maintenance costs. We hope that these strategies will be continuing, but added investments that require technological renewal of equipment are considered in them, as is the case in their maintenance, ”the AEIH president adds.

With the same path, Manil Rodriguez affects that this is a very important point, because it is at the level Budget planningYou only think about investing in buying equipment that leaves the maintenance part, which is of vital importance. With the rescue plan, “there are hospitals created at the budget level because there were no games to be able to provide maintenance with their equipment,” he says.

The IIR Resident Engineer number, the key in the discussion that was held around the medical writing group.

Hospital engineer character

The lack of planning is often reduced by an effort Engineers. Experts agree that these professionals are a major article for maintenance, and they do difficult and committed, so they must be a lot It was well formed And relying on The best tools.

That is why it is necessary, because the speakers put value, that the hospitals “Forty Hospital Engineering SectionsTo ensure the quality, safety and sustainability of the system and availability “, in order to enhance maintenance and Patient safety.

It is also the key to merge a personality Resident Internal Engineer (IIR) In that National Health System (SNS). AEIH is working hard to transfer this initiative to Ministry of HealthAnd creating training for this professional file is similar to Mir. “It is the only way to obtain maintenance control skills, specialized for a few years in the hospital,” explains Jose Luis Lopez Gonzalez.

The introduction to the discussion is reflected in the digital challenges for health technology maintenance.

Drival and maintenance of equipment

As in everything that surrounds us, Digitization and artificial intelligence (AI) They also stormed health technology maintenance. New generations of innovation equipment include not only to provide value for clinical care and health care, but also for data analysis, such as use times and Fatigue of materials.

“These developments take into account Environmental differences And allow the device to properly calibrate the device. This way, We can progress and provide inefficiency“With what we also lead to the sustainability of the system,” says Manil Rodriguez.

As he explained Jose Antonio Rodriguez LevaHowever, Amnesty International and the information of health teams allow you to move forward and talk about it “Cognitive Centers”This allows “to see the nature of the medical equipment garden operation in a specific hospital”, which can vary according to concrete environmental conditions and remote maintenance. “This opens Interesting new challenges“.

Jose Antonio Rodriguez, a member of the Board of Directors of the Technology Sector and Clinical Information Systems in Venin and the Director General of Comprehensive Electromed Support Services (SISEMED).

Discussion conclusions

Jose Luis Lopez Gonzalez: Maintenance must be estimated from the moment the purchase is determined and the contribution is continuing Awareness of managers To make these proposals effective, like the Vinin document.

Manil Rodriguez Barina: This is it Environmental cooperation system For all parties that we are all necessary, we must share knowledge to ensure the efficiency of the system and the safety of patients.

Jose Antonio Rodriguez Leva: Maintenance, it was and will remain so Intensive individuals. This is our focus.

Raquel Cánovas Paradell: You have to focus on Sustainability and technical solvency, This is what clinical engineers in hospitals must guarantee. Health technology maintenance is an environmental system and we have to do so A job among everyone.

A moment of discussion entitled “Maintenance in Health Technology: a major element in the quality of care.”