The Capital Bidding Process

First of all, what exactly is the “capital bidding process”? Essentially this is the process which starts with someone requesting the purchase of a medical device and ends with the commissioning of whatever is purchased. The term may be somewhat of a...

Geography versus Organisation

I have almost certainly posted about this before but the topic came up again recently so I thought I’d just run through the differences in e-Quip between geography and organisation. Have a look at the home page of a typical hospital – your own web site...

The Footprint Manager

If you haven’t already, it is strongly recommended that you read this blog article about groups & permissions before you look into group footprints. Just to recap, a footprint defines the parts of the database that a group of users can see. The “Hospital A”...

Group Permissions

You may have come across the series of articles about configuring e-Quip using the Role Manager. This is a really big subject and even when tackled in small chunks the articles are tending to become long which might give the impression that this is more complex than...

Signature Capture

I have been experimenting over the weekend with a signature pad from a German company called StepOver. One of our major clients uses these pads for all of their service engineers. I have to admit that it’s a very neat solution and the signatures produced are...