Design of a Computerized Inventory and Maintenance Management System for Stack Laboratory

Abstract

Hospitals, clinics and healthcare units depend on medical devices & equipment as an essential element to obtain the good performance, reduce staff and patients‟ risk, enhance patients care and quality of health services. The medical engineering department (MED) is responsible for all medical equipment; CIMMS is a software tool developed and used to assist medical engineer for managing and to reduce the problems of the traditional paper based system. Equipment management is one of the essential elements of a quality management system. The improve of equipment management program (EMP) depends of three factors: Inventory documents, maintenance schedule and computerized program. The purpose of this project was to design and implement a Computerized Inventory and Maintenance Management System, CIMMS is designed to assist engineers in the medical engineering department in stack laboratory, and the result showed that user interface forms are easy to use and improve the efficiency of inventory and maintenance management of medical devices in the laboratory