Abstract:

Objective To develop a clinical laboratory equipment management system for realizing information-based management. Methods A clinical laboratory equipment management system was developed by Visual Basic 6.0 and SQL Server 2005 softwares. Results The system consisted of 6 modules. Equipment management module mainly for file management and basic settings can quickly access equipment basic information and related information. Maintenance module included routine maintenance,planning maintenance and troubleshooting,which had the highest frequency for staff. Business management module included purchase,acceptance,allocation,lease,scrap and bad reports,which can achieve the whole life cycle management of equipment. Statistical analysis module included benefits,depreciation and use analysis. Using this module,managers can easily understand the benefit and use of equipment assets in the department. Appendix management module included 3 kinds of certificates and relevant documents,which can set different permissions. System setting module was for administrator background management,including parameter settings,personnel settings,operation logs and so on. After debugging,the system ran stably and replaced original manual and paper registration mode. After the system on-line running,the time of equipment archive management was shortened from 30 min to 2 min,and the time of record accessing and file searching reduced from 15 min to 30 s. The maintenance registration and fault record was decreased by 70%. Employee satisfaction increased from 62% to 90%. Conclusions The system helps us with improving work efficiency,reduce operation cost,realize information-based and paperless management of equipments.

Key words: Clinical laboratory, Equipment management, Software, Information