Abstract:Abstract-The assessment of medical equipment condition has become an issue of increasing concern within healthcare services over the recent years. Most of the used tools to assess medical equipment condition ignore the effect of equipment Down Time (DT) as major factors in determining medical equipment status. This manuscript describes the use of equipment DT over the assessment process, factors that impact equipment DT , auto measurement of equipment Up Time and DT, the assessment criteria, and the assessment… Show more
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