The Development Of The B/S Structure-based Medical Equipment Whole Lifecycle Information Management System

Medical equipment generally comprises the treament and diagnosis equipment in thearea of medicine and health. Medical equipment whole life cycle refers to the processranging from the planning to the retirement of medical equipment in a hospital,includingplanning, the establishment of the project, purchase, repair and maintenance, measurementquality, benefit analysis,depreciation, grading, transfer and retirement and so on. Inthemedical treatment envrionment, based on certain procedures, methods and principles,the whole life cycle management plans, directs, maintains, controls and supervises medicalequipment to make sure the effective use of human and financial resources, material andinformation, the safe and effective services for patients, and thus achieving good socialand economic benefits. In order to solve the current problems in medical equipment management in large hospitals, we developed the B/S architecture of medical equipmentwhole life cycle management information system.The system uses the popular B/S (Browser/Server) architecture, i.e. browser+server architecture, as opposed to the traditional C/S (Clinet/Server) architecture withlow coupling, high reusability and strong expansion characteristics. In this framework, theuser accesses through a browser, and a small part of the business logic in the browser isachieved via Javasrcipt, HTML5and so on, but the main business logic is achieved on theserver. In this case, the three-tier architecture is formed. This architecture simplifies theclient computer load, reduces the cost of system maintenance and upgrading, diminishesthe overall cost of the system and improves the efficiency of the system.Given the situation of medical equipment management and the trend of facilities andequipment development in hospital, based on the system engineering theory, integratingthe concept of the whole life cycle cost management (LCC) and modern management, Thestudy gives full play to B/S structure based systems, determines the system’s modularstructure and each module’s operation processes through the macro and micro designideas, and thus working out a detailed design to the system.In terms of the macro level,i.e. overall design concept, from LCC managementphilosophy and in accordance with the features of medical equipment life cycle, in thesystem design, life cycle management will be divided into two parts: the purchasemanagement and the utilization management, each part corresponding to the appropriatemanagement function and operation.And medical equipment showrooms are established tocomplement information, increase the department application modules, information query,and data reporting module, which supplement the system function,complete computermanagement information systems.In terms of the micro level, i.e. single product regulations of medical equipment,,we coded medical equipment in a standard way by following the classification directoryissued by the SFDA. In this way, we got a unique product code, which is regraded as theunique product code identifing a medical equipment throughout the life cycle. Followingthe principles that information is input at one point but shared by multi-points and the jobs are closely interrelated, the system ensures the information consistency,comprehensiveness and traceability of whole life cycle of medical equipment.Through the development and implementation, this system achieves the goal of thestandardization of management process, the institutionalization of working staff, thetransparency of job information, the real-time management of costs. Besides, medicalequipment management is scientifically and rationally regulated,and the supervision tohospital medical equipment is strengthened. More comprehensive statistical analysis andthe sound function of the system make the management departments and clinicaldepartments more quickly grasp all aspects of medical equipment information. B/Sstructure is easy to use, high in speed, and convenient to maintain in practical application.In the implementation process, some flaws in management regulations and deficiencyin work details were detected. The application of the system applications made work bothsimple and standardized since it used innovative real-time recording and logging in theconnections of each section and standard and strict management. The system was highlypraised by the experts in the military hospital grade evaluation since it played anextremely important role during the assessment process and the compliments wererecorded in “the chair speech for the feedback of the military hospital grade evaluation”and the experts suggested that the system be widely used in the army.In the future work, we plan to improve the data mining of the system, enhance thecost-effectiveness analysis and application management, so that the application analysis ofmedical equipment becomes more comprehensive and scientific. Also, we need improvethe system by solving the problems in the application process, optimize the operation andquery of the system,adapt it to the general use and try to promote its wide application inthe army.