Equipment health dashboard moves CMEPP closer to becoming an agnostic data hub
The challenge for CMEPP has always been giving hospitals not just operational data about their equipment’s performance but showing them how their equipment compares with industry standards. Not unreasonably, Participants need that information for crucial capital planning decisions.
Finding new and innovative ways of helping Participants access useful data about their equipment has motivated CMEPP to make significant investments in research, technology, advanced analytics, and AI.
With the new Equipment Health Overview dashboard on the Participant Portal, that work is starting to bear fruit.
What does the new dashboard offer? “It’s that centralized and vendor-neutral place where Participants can evaluate their equipment performance across hospitals, departments, and suppliers,” says TJ Jarvis, CMEPP’s Director, National Participant Accounts. If a hospital sees underperforming assets or excessive service events, they can work that into hospital capital planning or an alternative approach depending on the cause.
The added reporting capabilities were made possible by integrating CMEPP reports with the Canadian Association of Radiologists (CAR) lifecycle guidelines.
The new dashboard provides two layers of insight:
- From CAR, industry lifecycle replacement guidelines; and,
- From CMEPP, performance data based on uptime, mean time to repair, service frequency, and service events.
The new Equipment Health Overview Dashboard on the Participant Portal
A key benefit of the new dashboard is the ability to move from anecdotal decision-making to objective data-driven equipment management. “Before, someone might complain that their equipment is a poor performer,” says TJ. “Now they can look at the data and see how it actually performs relative to other equipment.”
“Linking our reports to the Canadian Association of Radiologists lifecycle guidelines has given our Participant organizations a much greater understanding of the equipment lifecycle and their overall equipment health, relative to a benchmark that many diagnostic imaging leaders and stakeholders are already familiar with” says TJ.
And there are more enhancements to come. TJ notes that while the system currently requires users to log into the Portal to access the information, work is underway to provide automated alerts and push notifications when equipment performance falls outside defined thresholds.
“We’re excited about the inevitable move of the platform toward a low-touch or even a no-touch monitoring system where users are proactively notified of issues,” says TJ.
One step at a time, but for now, the new dashboard represents a giant leap in CMEPP’s ongoing journey to becoming a vendor-agnostic data hub.
