MTS E-Quip (from Integra)

Managing the Hospital Equipping & Procurement Processes

If you are managing a hospital procurement project and are drowning in a sea of spreadsheets, then E-Quip can put you back in control. E-Quip is a powerful new equipping & procurement tool, designed and developed by Integra and distributed exclusively in the UK by Managed Technology Services Ltd. It moves procurement project-management away from Excel, and into a robust searchable database, while still giving the ease-of-use of a spreadsheet-style user-interface.

Although it is a relatively new product, E-Quip is already being used on some very large procurement projects, such as St Bartholomew's and The Royal London, which is the largest and most complex hospital redevelopment project in the country. Other major projects using E-Quip are the new hospitals at Wakefield and Pontefract for the Mid-Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, and the West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

And we don't just work for the NHS; the private sector presents a different set of procurement challenges, but we rise to those too! E-Quip is currently being used by the Beacon Medical Group for their projects in Cork, Limerick and Beaumont.

The Key Challenges for the Project Team

Process Management How are we doing? Are we on time? Are we on budget? What have we done so far? What should we do next? Data Management How do we present the whole team with a consistent view of the data when none of their software tools can communicate with each other? How can we make one user’s changes immediately visible to everyone else? Where is the key project information being held? How can we control multi-user access to the same data? Communication How do the Purchasing/Supplies Department know when to raise a purchase order? How does everybody else know that the order has been raised? When things change how do we make everyone aware of those changes? How do Estates, Medical Physics or EBME know what manpower resources they will need to commission or decommission equipment, and when those resources will be needed?

For a slightly "tongue-in-cheek" (but surprisingly accurate) walk through the procurement process, take a look at the About E-Quip page. For a more formal description of how E-Quip rises to these challenges to put you back in control, then either see the data sheet, or give us a call on +44 (0)7773-796827.

 

We have been producing and supporting software tools for hospital design and medical device asset-management for almost 20 years.

We are the developers of the  Activity DataBase (ADB) application, used by the Department of Health to distribute their best-practice design guidance data.

We have been providing application and user support for the Philips Medical Systems Optim CEM asset-management package for nearly 10 years.