Maintenance Management Software suits hospital technicians.
Press Release Summary:
MicroMain xmMOBILE(TM) for Healthcare is a software module that allows hospital technicians to utilize Pocket PCs for maintenance tasks and inspection. Technicians can access work orders, complete tasks or inspection, enter pertinent comments, and update data at point of work performance on hospital floor. At end of work shifts, technicians can upload data into main database, which generates reports used for regulatory agencies, such as JCAHO.
Original Press Release:
MicroMain Announces New Maintenance Management Module for Pocket PC Aimed at Hospitals
xmMOBILE for Healthcare Improves Maintenance Efficiencies
(July 13, 2005) AUSTIN, TX - MicroMain Corporation, a leading provider of asset and facility management software and services, today announced the release of MicroMain xmMOBILE (TM) for Healthcare, a software module allowing hospital technicians to utilize Pocket PCs for their maintenance tasks and inspections. This add-on module is used with MicroMain XM (TM) for Healthcare, a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) developed specifically for hospitals and healthcare environments.
xmMOBILE for Healthcare can be used with a bar code scanner and supports a wide range of handheld devices using the Pocket PC operating system.
Maintenance technicians in a hospital's facilities department and biomedical equipment technicians in a hospital's clinical engineering department will both benefit from the xmMOBILE for Healthcare module. Using this module with their Pocket PCs, technicians will easily access work orders, complete the tasks or inspections, enter pertinent comments, and update the data at the point of work performance on the hospital floor. At the end of their work shifts, the technicians upload their data into the main database, which generates reports used for regulatory agencies, such as JCAHO.
Once hospital technicians upload their data from xmMOBILE, equipment risk assessment is associated with the work order in the main database. MicroMain XM for Healthcare allows each hospital to determine and assign maintenance tasks based on equipment risk assessment-a numerical classification based on factors such as equipment function, maintenance requirements, and consequence of equipment failure to patient care.
Risk assessment is particularly important for clinical engineering equipment, which includes ventilators, defibrillators, cardiovascular machines, X-ray equipment, and nuclear magnetic resonance equipment. Biomedical equipment technicians install, inspect, service and repair this type of equipment. With xmMOBILE for Pocket PC, the technicians can complete their work faster and increase accuracy with electronic transmission of data.
"Our new xmMOBILE for Healthcare allows hospitals to improve efficiencies by saving maintenance time and ensuring complete capture of accurate data," said Pat Conroy, President of MicroMain. "Hospital managers appreciate the way they can determine weighted equipment risk assessments and use those thresholds to create preventive maintenance tasks. Now they can transmit those PM tasks and inspections directly to the hospital floor with xmMOBILE for Pocket PC."
About MicroMain
MicroMain Corporation (www.micromain.com) provides award-winning asset and facility management software and services to organizations worldwide. All MicroMain products are delivered with source code, an unprecedented offering that gives each customer complete solution control and flexibility. With MicroMain's easy-to-use systems, customers simplify maintenance operations, improve facility management, and reduce costs. Since 1991, more than 2,700 customers-in education, healthcare, hospitality/recreation, manufacturing, property management, corporate facilities, the public sector, and many other industries-have chosen MicroMain for their maintenance and facility needs. Privately owned, MicroMain is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
xmMOBILE and MicroMain XM are trademarks of MicroMain Corporation.
Contact
Karen Roller
Director of Public Relations
MicroMain Corporation
512-328-3235 x24
karenr@micromain.com
