Implementación de un procedimiento de evaluación de obsolescencia en equipos biomédicos instalados en una institución prestadora de servicios de salud de nivel III en la ciudad de Santiago de Cali

Abstract

The management of medical technology is a fundamental part of health institutions, which provides different tools to guarantee the operation and effectiveness of the technology. In this context, performance evaluations of biomedical equipment provide information on what is their physical-functional status that serves to verify that they are in optimal conditions and not a risk to the patient or health personnel. Therefore, it is proposed in the present investigation to develop an obsolescence evaluation procedure for a health service provider institution (IPS); For this purpose, a series of variables and criteria are determined to identify the current state of the technology within the institution and provide qualitative indicators, which provide the support to decide when it is time to make a replacement and / or device renewal caused by obsolescence. For which it was implemented in a specific area and as a product, accurate information was obtained about the medical devices evaluated for later decision making.