Abstract:

Recently, the implementation of savings-enhancing activities in public service areas has been supported by the authorities. Since most of the health facilities provide uninterrupted service on a 24/7 basis, the multiplier effect of the savings activities that can be made in this area will also be high. Medical devices are also equipment that provides uninterrupted service in healthcare facilities. For this reason, effective and efficient management of medical devices is important. In this study, it is aimed to reveal whether a significant gain can be achieved with spare parts dismantled from scrap medical devices in a certain period. It has been discussed that the reuse of usable spare parts of scrapped medical devices in public health facilities, which is the largest supplier of medical devices, can also be considered among the saving-enhancing activities. The study was carried out in a hospital with an inventory of approximately 2000 medical devices. A virtual repository has been created by uploading certain parts of certain medical devices that have been scrapped to a specially designed web application. During the nine-month period, 50 spare parts were registered in the virtual repository and 15 of these parts were used for failed devices. 14 medical devices were repaired in an average of 1.5 days using spare parts found in the virtual repository created. In addition, 1 electrocardiography device, which was stated to be unavailable due to the expiry of the spare part supply period, was not scrapped; It was repaired with the part obtained from the virtual repository. The findings obtained as a result of the study show that efficiency, cost-effective medical device management and some other gains in service delivery can be achieved if the scrap medical device acquisition system is developed by integrating it into existing hospital information management systems and applied by all health facilities.

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