A development of medical equipment registration and spare part module in WepMEt system for medical equipment management in Thai hospital

摘要

This research purposes to develop a medical equipment registration and spare part reserve module which is an important basic component in the WepMEt (Web application for medical equipment management in hospital) program set. This is a main assistive device for medical equipment management in a general hospital. This program is developed as a Web-base application tool which applying a decision supporting system, industrial engineering technique and experience in a real situation in a program development process. Those concepts are conformed in order obtain the program set that response to context and medical equipment management process in Thai and also concerning a hospital quality assurance. Synthesis process of main information for medical equipment registration system and spare part reserve system is performed by group criticizing of medical equipment management expertise. The program development is based on a rapid prototype technique. This program set is tested by recording of 3,512 items of medical equipment from 75 departments, 50 equipment types. The evaluation shows that our program set compatibly response to Firefox browser and able to attach electronic file into database and also able to create and print a bar-code for supporting a program operation.