THE BENEFITS OF MAINTENANCE SOFTWARE FOR THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY

The value proposition of Valuekeep maintenance management solution for the Healthcare industry.

HEALTH SECTOR’S TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION AND MAINTENANCE NEEDS

The quality of the healthcare services naturally depends on technology.

Hospitals, clinics and other healthcare facilities are made up of automatic machines and tools that must always be operational to ensure its safety and integrity. This is one of the most important industries, so it must keep up with our current digital evolution. The most critical equipment should be managed in an efficient and preventive way using a digital platform that centralizes all information. Otherwise, it will not only affect productivity, but will also have a negative impact on the satisfaction of the stakeholders.

In an industry full of uncontrollable factors, such as viruses and infections, healthcare facilities are forced to regularly inspect

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IN A SECTOR WHERE FAILURES ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE, THE MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT AND INFRASTRUCTURE IS FUNDAMENTAL FOR THE FACILITIES’ SAFETY AND INTEGRITY.

THE DIGITALIZATION OF PROCESSES IS ESSENTIAL TO MAKE HEALTHCARE FACILITIES MORE AGILE AND EFFICIENT. THE MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION PLAYS A CRUCIAL ROLE IN ACHIEVING THIS GOAL AND ENSURING THE ASSETS’ BEST PERFORMANCE.

What are the main challenges for the healthcare sector?

What are the benefits of implementing the

maintenance solution?

Which companies in the sector have embraced Valuekeep’s solution?

equipment, and follow good maintenance and use practices daily.

Acquiring a maintenance solution is a primary need to ensure the effective operation of hospitals, thus increasing productivity and the quality of the services provided. Likewise, digital solutions help simplify the maintenanceoperations management with high levels of accuracy and reliability, allowing access to information in real time.

Healthcare managers have the mission of keeping their facilities in the best operating conditions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The equipment must operate efficiently and provide all the necessary care to patients, providing them with safety and comfort. Healthcare facilities sometimes own multiple buildings and need to rigorously manage multiple teams – both internal and external – to ensure equipment and facilities’ availability and good performance.

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WHAT ARE THE MAIN CHALLENGES FOR THE HEALTHCARE SECTOR?

The staff’s focus should be on keeping the equipment in the best operating conditions. For this reason, maintenance operations must be strictly carried out and faults must be fixed quickly and efficiently to ensure the facilities’ safety and integrity.

The equipment’s technical complexity in this industry requires careful management to ensure its availability and efficient operation.

Equipment maintenance is often carried out by suppliers. It is therefore necessary to have a management tool that integrates all maintenance interventions in a single platform, both from the internal and the external teams. This will solve all issues related to the loss or lack of information on equipment and facilities’ status.

To achieve maximum control of equipment and infrastructure’s maintenance management, it is necessary to use tools, such as maintenance software. This solution allows access to information in real time and anywhere (through the Valuekeep Mobile app).

WHY IS THE MAINTENANCE SOLUTION IMPORTANT FOR THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM?

In an industry with high supply, healthcare facilities must remain competitive and profitable through efficient management

processes.

Digitalizing and integrating data on a single platform are the key to monitor, coordinate and interconnect information from multiple devices.

Appropriate maintenance practices and compliance with standards can prevent equipment malfunction, fines and ensure health and safety in the workplace. This is another decisive factor for choosing a maintenance solution for healthcare facility management. The digitalization of processes simplifies audits: allowing access to operation records, generating reports and implementing more effective preventive maintenance strategies. All this helps make hospitals and clinics more efficient and intelligent.

The maintenance solution simplifies maintenance operations and streamlines processes, which increases the efficiency of the processes. In addition, this type of technological solution can transform data into useful insights that help the decision making in maintenance management issues.

Maintenance software ensures optimal equipment performance by providing a comprehensive asset management solution, as well as preventive task scheduling tools. In addition, it enables you to track equipment investment and its return, and to overcome the boundaries of communication and information access.

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The maintenance solution implementation fulfills all preventive maintenance tasks within the established deadlines, which avoids equipment failures and malfunctions. Technological solutions of this kind allow the accurate analysis of data on components and materials used, labor time, and even the calculation of an asset down time (in the repair period).

In addition to centralizing all data, the solution allows to access the information in real time, anywhere, through a computer or mobile device. It is equipped with features capable of increasing the assets lifespan and reliability, including HVAC systems, lights, sanitation and piping systems, elevators, medical equipment, among others.

EASIER COMMUNICATION BETWEEN ALL STAKEHOLDERS

The equipment manufacturers are mainly responsible for its maintenance. Therefore, it is essential to ensure communication between the healthcare facility teams and the suppliers. The mobile maintenance app chat simplifies the communication between all those involved in this process, thus increasing the operations’ success rate.

The maintenance solution ensures a natural flow of information between all stakeholders, processes, machines and equipment.

HEALTH AND SAFETY OF INFRASTRUCTURES

In addition to the increased equipment’s global availability, preventive maintenance strategies ensure the safety and hygiene of employees and patients. Technological devices as, for example, X-rays or acclimatization, such as air conditioning, must be accurately monitored.

The solution alerts you to all maintenance plans programmed in the equipment through notifications, in order to ensure the efficiency of the equipment and to make the place safer for everyone.

RELIABLE INFORMATION FOR DECISION MAKING

This type of technological solution stores a large amount of data that provides managers with a clear and detailed view of the equipment and facilities’ performance. Thanks to this data and more accurate consumption measurements, managers can make effective decisions that reduce maintenance costs.

RIGOROUS EQUIPMENT AND TECHNICAL TEAM MANAGEMENT

Maintenance interventions in the healthcare facilities are often performed by external teams. The maintenance solution makes it possible to manage and monitor the work of these teams and to inventory the assets with barcodes and

WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF IMPLEMENTING THE MAINTENANCE SOLUTION?

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NFC tags to facilitate their physical identification. The automation increases the operability and lifespan of the assets, accelerating the return on investments made. All this is possible from a single system, accessible from anywhere.

PROCESS MANAGEMENT AND ACCESS TO INFORMATION IN REAL TIME

Achieving an improved workflow is another decisive factor to acquire this solution. Work orders can be scheduled in a calendar and assigned to the respective technicians, whom will then be notified with the task description.

Regarding management, it’s important to point out the possibility to monitor operations and technical teams in the field. On the other hand, the technicians can report on the work carried out and send immediate maintenance requests, which greatly speeds up this process.

The mobile app allows to update the maintenance task status anywhere, reduces paper usage, receives inputs in real time and communicates with all stakeholders.

REDUCED USE OF PAPER

Concerning the social and environmental responsibility, this solution promotes a reduction in the use of paper. Through the digitalization of processes, such as digital signatures and reports, paper is no longer part of the daily maintenance. operability and lifespan of the assets, accelerating the return on investments made. All this is possible from a single system, accessible from anywhere.

COMPANIES THAT EMBRACED VALUEKEEPValuekeep is the choice of several companies in the health sector. We support our clients in their digital transformation, as well as in the implementation of more efficient preventive maintenance strategies.

Luz Saúde was created in 2000 and is one of the largest healthcare groups in Portugal. It is present in the North, Centre, Centre-South regions of mainland Portugal and the Autonomous Region of Madeira.

The group provides its services through 30 facilities (including 14 private hospitals, one NHS hospital operated by Luz Saúde as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP), 13 private clinics operating on an outpatient basis and two senior residences).

• 14 private hospitals• 13 private clinics• 1 NHS hospital operated by Luz Saúde as a Public-Private Partnership

(PPP)

Clínica Patrão was founded in 2000 and is an integrated oral medicine clinic. In the last two years, it has received the Portuguese award “PME Líder” (Leader SME). Its main specialties are Implantology and Oral Rehabilitation, Oral Surgery and Pathology andOrthodontics.

• 8 clinical offices

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• Increase team productivity (internal or external). • Control the work of technicians in real time• Reduce time spent on recording information• Implement appropriate maintenance strategies for each asset or location• Remove the use of paper • Access accurate work reports to support decisions• Control all the maintenance information in one single solution• Streamline the creation of activity reports

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