project proposal

Executive Summary

Assumptions

The Radiology Engineering (RE) department is considering the proposal to develop the new healthcare facility of Cardiology Hospital. The proposal for improving 3-year service training plan for various levels of Biomedical Engineers for the assigned department, and specific subset of Equipment in that facility. Also, the proposal provides a developed plan for needed equipment to support PM/Repair on site for equipment chosen.

Stakeholders

By implementing this development plan in the Cardiology hospital, the Radiology Department will be positively affected in improving the healthcare environment. For Radiology Department, the new planning project to develop the cardiology hospital will benefit the CEO of hospital, Patients, Physicians, specialist’s users of Radiology equipment, and Nurses.

CFO, Department Head, Director manegar, equipment specialist, Radiilogy Department, Nurses, other affected department, and the receivers.

Problems

The underlying problems is that Radiology Department in Cardiology Hospital requires a new development plan for service training that involves with various levels of Biomedical Engineers that have plan for PM/Repair to the parts of assigned to each. The hospital needs new equipment for radiology department and requires training for each equipment to preform PM/Repair.

· Training Various Levels of Biomedical Engineers by Vendors.

· 3-years plan for service training to do PM/Repair.

i) Assigning Biomedical Engineers in Training for Equipment

ii) Certified Engineers & Preform PM/Repair,

iii) Parts

iv) Tools

· Selecting Imaging Equipment for Radiology Department.

Solutions

In Biomedical Engineering Department, we provide for each technician a training for different equipment received by the vendor General Electric (GE). As a manager of the department we are requesting to have qualified Engineer from the vendor to provide training to biomedical engineers we have in the hospital to apply PM & Repair to the equipment as the following:

Biomedical Engineer 3: required for training on MRI assigned.

Biomedical Engineer 2: required for training on CT assigned, and for training on X-Ray

Biomedical Engineer 1: required for training on troubleshooting and PM for other devices assigned.

The Radiology Department will have 4 Biomedical Engineers for the assigned equipment listed based on their levels and training. According to AAMI, the job description of all of Biomedical Engineering Technology (BMET, levels 1-3):

· BIOMED 1: Maintain medical equipment based on specified management plan provided to them. Preform a general routine tasks of installation, maintenance, calibration and basic repairs for the assigned equipment. In addition, general skills and experience for (BMET-1) should demonstrates a basic possesses of electromechanical systems and devices that includes radiological, laboratory, and network medical systems.

· BIOMED 2: Maintain medical equipment based on specified management plan provided to them. Preform their specialty tasks of installation, maintenance, calibration and repairs for the assigned equipment. In addition, general skills and experience for (BMET-2) is higher level than (BMET-1), which can give an advantage of teaching BMET-1 to work on higher equipment such as: X-Ray, Ultrasound, and life support equipment.

· BIOMED 3: Maintain medical equipment based on specified management plan provided to them. Preform a full work on all tasks of installation, maintenance, calibration and repairs for the assigned equipment. In addition, general skills and experience for (BMET-3) is a detailed demonstrating of communicating with device supported and acuity equipment for direct patient care. Also, a good source for other engineers to mentor and teach high tech equipment.

Training:

The Radiology Department is scheduling time for the vendor to ship the equipment needed for the Cardiology Hospital and preform the installation for the imaging equipment. The Radiology Department will require the Biomedical Engineers to attend and follow up with the installation of the equipment while the vendor’s Technician is preforming and have an assessment of their understanding. Furthermore, based on General Electric (GE) vendor there are two options of contracts; a long-term contract and Medium-term contract. Based on the two options, the budget will vary on training the Biomedical Engineering Technicians, which the long-term contract will have a free training, parts, and labor for the equipment. Also, for the second option the short-term contract will cost me for the training the Biomedical Engineering Technicians.

As a manger of the Radiology Department, choosing a long-term contract will be the best option for the budget to have all of the following covered: All engineers are trained to the assigned equipment, parts are covered, free labor to the imaging equipment. According to Abdulkader Clinical Engineering IU Health University Hospital, general Electric (GE) provides a 3-year warranty that includes (parts+labor) for equipment. However, looking for other options of vendors has no long-term contract to cover what General Electric have offered. for instant, general electric is the vendor who is considered to be contracted with for all Imaging Equipment for Cardiology Hospital. In addition, after the contract is expired the radiology department will consider to re-new the contract for only the parts and consider the Biomedical Engineering Technicians to preform the repair at the time. As a manger of the Radiology Department, for emergency situation happens to the Technician not attending, or traveling, the manger will replace their position to preform the PM/Repairs that appears during that period.

Project Objective

Identifying specific objectives for the project play help in solving the problem thoroughly. The project objectives include:

1. To determine the number of medical imaging equipment and other equipment for facility.

2. To select proper vendor for better cost and best performance of equipment.

3. To do fully performance to medical imaging devices by Biomedical Engineers assigned.

4. To provide all tools needed to PM/repair on site for assigned equipment type.

5. To select the right plan and technology for their need.

6. To obtain feedback from stakeholders.

Developmental Methodologies

The first activity that will be considered to start developing newly healthcare facility is to obtain what type of equipment and quantities the hospital needs to determine how long hours of PM/Repair it would take to assign Biomedical Engineers to preform. Also, determine what benefits will the vendor provide to train clinical engineers which will depend on the cost.

Constraints, Limitations and Risks

Project Phases, Milestones and Intermediate Deliverables

1. Meet to the Clinical Engineers to determine the feasibility of this project.

2. Identify the number of devices.

3. Where these devices are located in the hospital.

4. Contact vendors.

5. Understand how Radiology Engineers work.

6. Understand the infrastructure needed for quantities of equipment.

7. Share all this information with the stakeholders.

8. Understand what brands and vendors who can provide what the facility needs.

9. Understand what tools needed to PM/repair on site for assigned equipment type

10. Understand the size, disciplines, types of departments, and patient care in the facility.

Quality Assurance and Testing Processes and Procedures

The project plan development alongside stakeholders will take part in evaluating outcomes. At the end of the project, project objectives will be reviewed in order to determine whether all the objectives are met. Feedback from participants is what will be used to determine the success level of the proposal.

Facility Type:

The chosen facility for this project in Cardiology Department Hospital, that has average 100 patients per day. The disciplines of cardiology hospital will include cardiac electrophysiology, cardio geriatrics, Echocardiography, interventional cardiology, Nuclear cardiology, and pediatric cardiology. The type of departments in cardiology hospital are oncology, rehabilitation, emergency, medicine, surgery, and endoscopy. Patient care is the first priorities in cardiology hospital for their heart disorders, coronary circulation disorders, disorders of the myocardium, disorders of the pericardium, disorders of the heart valves, and diseases of blood vessels.

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