SIAEM design of Medical Equipment control system for the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación, an experience

The management and optimal control of functional status of medical devices through CMMS systems called, has become a necessity today for any biomedical engineering department perform their duties with efficiency, effectiveness and productivity. The Subdirección de Investigación Tecnológica, of Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación in Mexico, is being developed an Information System for the Management of Medical Equipment, SIAEM in order to solve the limitations of commercial systems. Despite the improvements seen with the first two versions of SIAEM; the internal changes in workflow and the need to include new criteria for assessing performance and productivity are key points to consider the evolution of the system into a third version, where access of information is done at the client-server model in a three-tier architecture based on the methodologies of software engineering. SIAEM versions have meant significant savings in maintenance and updating. The design has ensured a CMMS “ad-hoc”, which h evolved alongside the needs of USUARIOS, and enhancing the functionality, navigability, information structure and system architecture.