Everything Texas Biomedical Services publishes on medical imaging equipment preventive maintenance in one place: the full service overview, the related services we provide, and the locations we cover.
Use this page to find the exact medical imaging equipment preventive maintenance service you need. Everything Texas Biomedical Services publishes for this area is listed below, starting with the full overview.
A preventive maintenance programme is only as good as its completion rate. A schedule that is 70 percent complete is not a programme; it is a list of devices someone intended to look at, and inspectors read the gap rather than the intent.
Findings are reported plainly, including the ones that mean a device should be taken out of service.
Preventive maintenance is the work you do so the repair call never happens. Inspection, cleaning, wear-part replacement and performance verification, on a schedule set by the manufacturer and the device's own history — done properly it converts unplanned downtime into planned downtime, which is the whole point.
The value of preventive maintenance shows up in what does not happen: the procedure that is not cancelled, the loaner that is not needed, the overnight call that does not come. That makes it easy to underfund and expensive to have underfunded.
Work is performed to manufacturer specification and the applicable regulatory standard, and the record says which one was applied.
Every visit produces documentation an inspector can read without a translator: what was done, to what standard, by whom, and when it is next due.
Technicians are qualified for the equipment they touch, and the qualification is on file rather than asserted.
The value of preventive maintenance shows up in what does not happen: the procedure that is not cancelled, the loaner that is not needed, the overnight call that does not come. That makes it easy to underfund and expensive to have underfunded.
Scope is written down before the work begins, including what is excluded. Most disputes about equipment service are really disputes about scope that nobody put in writing.
Service records are read at the worst possible moment - after an incident, during an accreditation survey, in discovery. That is the audience they should be written for, which means legible, specific and dated rather than signed off in bulk.
Quotes are specific to the equipment in front of you. The scope is agreed before the work is quoted, not after it is done.
Current developments in medical imaging equipment preventive maintenance, with sources for further reading.
