Medical Equipment & Low Voltage System Planning
“The key to a successful healthcare construction project is a comprehensive Medical Equipment Planning process. This lays the foundation for the application of practices that may not only save the facility money on medical equipment, but on the entire project cost. This requires careful consideration of a number of variables such as the sophistication of the equipment being specified, the accuracy of cost estimates, the needs and desires of the various stakeholders and the frequency of change orders, to name a few.”
The best process to assemble this information is to gain input through a series of meetings. Corporate·Initial Outfitting’s Medical Equipment Planning professionals will take a formal approach to ensuring that these and other requirements are properly addressed.
Medical Equipment Planning Meetings
Our medical equipment meetings include..…… “meeting with key leadership to address possibilities of future change in procedures, volume, staff and other variables. Then, medical equipment appropriate to those possibilities can be planned”.
Timely Design Decisions Impact Scheduling
“Leadership must also understand the impact of timely design decision-making on completing the overall project on schedule. Design and construction rely on exact details; and placeholders for fixed equipment don’t provide the level of detail needed. It is better to design around a specific system and modify the design for an alternative system later”.
Supply Chain, Contracts and Standards
Our project team identifies…. “the budget and cost-estimate decision-makers and asks them to establish who is carrying what costs in their budgets. For instance, picture archiving and communication system display monitors may be carried under the IT cost estimate or under the medical equipment estimate”.
C·IO will also …….”meet with supply chain and purchasing early in the design process to understand GPO contracts, standards, leased and no-charge items and availability of discounts”.
Medical Technology User Involvement
“Medical technology user involvement is vital to developing reliable, trustworthy Medical Equipment Planning. The right clinicians, staff members and subject matter experts will be identified and brought to the design and planning meetings. Clinical staff can help to identify project-specific factors such as marketing, clinical applications, government regulations, test or procedure volumes, patient demographics and staff preferences.”
Most importantly, the Corporate·Initial Outfitting project team ensures all equipment and systems meet clinical needs and program criteria.