CLINICAL ENGINEERING:
monitoring technology, making processes more efficient

Dealing with surgical equipment and textile products for operating theatres does not only involve cleaning, sterilising and servicing and repairing.

Behind the work of the laundry facilities and the central sterile services departments there is much more: analysis of demand, monitoring and technical maintenance; in other words: clinical engineering.

In the same way as specialised staff must attend regular training courses, high-tech equipment also requires calibration and constant updating: Servizi Italia, thanks to the Steritek team, is responsible for validating and systematically monitoring the service and repair of medical equipment in order to ensure the safe, adequate and efficient management of all the biomedical technologies used.

Programming and planning are strategically important activities that help make processes more efficient and anticipate the investment necessary for technological innovation (while bearing in mind the budgetary restrictions and guidelines issued by the relevant institutions).

Servizi Italia’s clinical engineering team offers its expertise to healthcare and hospital facilities in order to:

• identify and assess the risks for both operating teams and patients,
• identify any obsolete technology and update it, if necessary,
• always be aware of the current legislation and of any developments in specific technologies in the field,
• know the support network and the diagnostic-therapeutic routes in which that technology is applied.

Technology evolves in every sector; it does so continuously and at a great pace.

Updating technology is an absolute must for healthcare and hospital facilities: for this reason it is essential to have an in-depth knowledge of biomedical equipment, to monitor its actual use and to be on top of any changes.

Servizi Italia’s clinical engineering team is also tasked with supporting healthcare and hospital facilities in

• having a tracking system which is unique to each piece of medical equipment,
• creating a complete and up-to-date map of each piece of equipment,
• managing the personal, technical and performance-related information relating to each medical device.