Everything BiomedRx publishes on biomedical equipment preventive maintenance in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
This is the index for biomedical equipment preventive maintenance. If you already know which service you need, go straight to it below; if not, the full overview explains what each one covers.
A preventive maintenance programme is only as good as its completion rate. A schedule that is 70 percent complete is not a programme; it is a list of devices someone intended to look at, and inspectors read the gap rather than the intent.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
The value of preventive maintenance shows up in what does not happen: the procedure that is not cancelled, the loaner that is not needed, the overnight call that does not come. That makes it easy to underfund and expensive to have underfunded.
Scheduling is agreed rather than imposed. Clinical operations set the window, and work that cannot fit inside it gets planned around a shutdown rather than forced into a working day.
Service records are read at the worst possible moment - after an incident, during an accreditation survey, in discovery. That is the audience they should be written for, which means legible, specific and dated rather than signed off in bulk.
Tell us what you operate and where, and you will get a straight answer about what it needs, what it costs, and how soon someone can be there.
Current developments in biomedical equipment preventive maintenance, with sources for further reading.
Primary regulations and standards referenced on this page. Where a standard is published commercially it is named in full rather than linked to a copy.
