Web Software for Technology and Medical Infrastructure Management of a Clinical Engineering Department

Abstract

In the present work, we describe the design and implementation of a Web information system for the management of technology and medical infrastructure for a medical center, with proper capacities to be used at the governmental level. The work begins with analysis of the workflow that a Clinical Engineering Department follows during corrective or preventive operations on the infrastructure and medical technology in order to keep the electromedical equipment and the infrastructure in optimal state of operation. For the design, development and implementation of the IT solution, the freely available tools LayoutIt, Bootstrap framework and XAMP Web server were used. The system uses the PHP language combined with HTML to provide a user-friendly interface that allows following step by step the flow defined for the management of the interventions, in addition to sending emails and generating work material in PDF format. At the same time, it records the necessary data to be used later by the statistics module. This Web system is published and in use by the professionals of the Clinical Engineering Department of the Hospital de Córdoba in the province of Córdoba, Argentina.