The new platform capabilities use artificial intelligence to help health systems track medical equipment performance and manage maintenance across multiple sites.
PartsSource announced new advancements for Asset Uptime within the PartsSource PRO platform to help health systems improve visibility into clinical asset performance and maximize clinical capacity across care environments.
The new artificial intelligence (AI)-driven capabilities, to be demonstrated at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) eXchange in Denver, are designed to expand patient care capacity during a period of high demand and hospital bed shortages. According to the company, most health systems operate on 1% to 2% margins, meaning small improvements in equipment uptime can impact financial sustainability.
Asset Tracking and Health Records
The Asset Uptime solution provides healthcare technology management leaders with a real-time view of equipment. The Asset Explorer feature highlights limited, planned, and non-functional assets in a color-coded view. Additionally, the Asset Health Record provides access to service data, operational history, contracts, and performance benchmarks in a single source.
“Mission-critical clinical assets sit at the center of care delivery, and their performance directly impacts patient access, operational efficiency and financial performance,” says Philip Settimi, MSE, MD, CEO of PartsSource, in a release. “As healthcare environments become more capacity constrained and clinical technology-dependent, health systems need a more strategic way to monitor, maintain and manage medical devices across the enterprise. That means using AI and machine learning to make better decisions, coordinate service more effectively and keep critical equipment ready for patient care.”
Implementation at MultiCare Health System
MultiCare Health System, which operates 14 hospitals and nearly 300 clinics in Washington, implemented the solution to manage thousands of clinical assets across a 600-mile geography. Previously, asset management was fragmented across different systems.
“Asset Uptime gives my team a centralized pane of glass into asset performance across the system with visibility to what’s critical, what’s down, and what’s due for preventive maintenance. It brings a new level of asset governance, giving us the data we need to improve uptime, utilization, service costs, and lifecycle decision-making,” says Don Davenport, clinical engineering manager, MultiCare Health System, in a release.
The platform uses AI and machine learning to help teams identify high-impact equipment issues, automate service responses, and identify root causes of failures. These tools are intended to help clinical operations and supply chain teams manage equipment across multi-vendor, multi-modality, and multi-site environments.
PartsSource is currently providing visibility to more than 255,000 distinct clinical assets across 460 care sites. The company will showcase these new capabilities at AAMI eXchange from May 29 to June 1.
Photo caption: Asset Uptime gives HTM leaders a real-time view of mission-critical equipment across the health system. The solution’s Asset Explorer highlights hard down, limited, and planned assets in a single, color-coded view, while the Asset Health Record provides one-click access to operational history, service data, contracts, and performance benchmarks in a unified source of truth.
Photo credit: PartsSource
