To make sure patients receive efficient, quality care, many hospital centres must update their medical equipment inventory. Moreover, a thorough assessment of the equipment presently in use, has revealed that various types of equipment do not meet the needs of centres and are considered obsolete or to expensive to operate/maintain.

Therefore, it is now mandatory to upgrade the technological infrastructures of the medical sector.

The health network’s first challenge is to have an accurate account of the inventory in each hospital and social services centre. This information would make it possible to forecast the funding required for the short, medium and long-term replacement of the network’s technological infrastructures.

Gamma, Global Automated Management of Medical Assets, designed and developed by GAIN CONCEPT, is a unique and efficient software solution that creates a centralised point for managing and monitoring medical equipment and instrument inventories.

GAMMA provides an accurate account of the condition of your infrastructures. This leading edge software will give you a comprehensive view of the maintenance efforts and costs required by each piece of equipment in your inventory. Furthermore, this valuable information can easily be used to justify the replacement of ageing or obsolete equipment. GAMMA also standardises your equipment and supplier nomenclatures. You can also rely on it to manage the requisition process for new equipment and maintenance services from start to finish for every department in your hospital centre. Our ingenious software will even warn you ahead of time when maintenance servicing is required, and also enable you to keep electronic records of technical data (testing results) pertaining to servicing or maintenance from delivery to retirement.


Product Specifications

Coding and Description Standards

ECRI

National

APIBQ

France-based CNEH

Users

Number of users depends on the licenses purchased

Permissions authorised by user

Quick inventory control

Internet link for registration numbers

“ONLINE” inventory tracking (Pocket PC)

Field personalisation

Assigned to database tables

Colour of fields

Positioning

Bar code scanning reserved for Equipment and Components Field

Search

Dynamic

Multicriteria

Test result

Similar or same

3 levels of filters

Excel conversion

Requisition management

Made directly by the technician

Made by user

Priority rating 1 to 3

Ring the pager

Possibility to monitor absences

Possibility to redirect

Signals when more than one requisition is made for the same reason

Alarm management

Inventory number

Model

Group including exclusions

Date and time

Medical alert management

PDF, DOC, JPG, XLS formats

Electronic signature

Including historical background

Procedure management

DOC, XLS formats

Linked to the requisition

Service bulletin management

Every format is available (xls, doc, pdf, etc.)

Digitisation using GAMMA software

Referenced Service manuals electronic versions
Electronic messaging

Follow-up messages on:

Equipment under warranty

Equipment with warranty ending soon (30 days)

Equipment under after-sales service contracts

Equipment with after-sales service contracts ending soon (30 days)

Out of service equipment

Parts/components on order

Open service bulletins

Ongoing medical alerts

Telephone directory

Automatic dialer

Suggestion-based Quick Search

Note pad

Reference number

Watch and vacation schedules

Invoicing

Calculation of parts/components installed

Pre-registered clients

Parts/components management

Search conducted using either one of the fields

Budget transfer (parts/components sales)

Printer friendly order form

Connection to purchasing (option available in the future if required)

Preventive maintenance management

Choice of maintenance intervals, time (counter), day, month, specific week of the year /LI>

Calculates the total time required

Data transfer interface

20 programmable interfaces

Leakage current, overrun, defibrillator, volume and flow

Parallel or in series

Assessment of results obtained

Real-time graphic representation, graphic labelling

Electronically stored results

Work off-line

Data recovery, inventory, requisition, parts/components

Statistics according to:

Specialisation

Technicians

Equipment, model, room, etc.

Cost of parts/components

Cost of service contracts

Down time

Requisition, quantity by technician, number of closed requisitions

New vs. out of service equipment

Reports

Presented with ACCESS

Printer configuration (choice of fields to print)

Printable file

User module

Auto log off

Suggestive search

Display absences

Mandatory and visible programmable fields

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