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Evaluating a computerized maintenance management system in a low resource setting.

Farah Beniacoub¹, Fabrice Ntwari², Jean-Paul Niyonkuru²

¹Enabel, Belgian development agency, Rue Haute 147, 1000 Brussels, Belgium.

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Implementing a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in Burundi

Keywords:

Ancillary information systems Biomedical technology HTMS Maintenance Management information systems

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Area of Science:

Healthcare Management
Biomedical Engineering
Information Systems

Background:

Resource-constrained healthcare systems face challenges in maintaining medical equipment.
Effective management of biomedical assets is crucial for healthcare service delivery.

Purpose of the Study:

To document the implementation of a Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) in Burundi's healthcare system.
To assess the impact of CMMS on biomedical maintenance operations and asset functionality.

Main Methods:

Development of a localized biomedical asset ontology mapped to international standards (GMDN, ICMD).
Deployment of a web-based CMMS across selected health districts, hospitals, and health centers.
Monitoring maintenance interventions, corrective maintenance delays, and asset functionality over a three-year period.

Main Results:

A significant increase in monthly biomedical maintenance interventions (from 4 to 350).
Reduction in average corrective maintenance delays (from 106 to 26 days).
Improvement in the proportion of functional medical assets (from 88% to 91%).

Conclusions:

Sustainable CMMS implementation is feasible in low-resource settings.
Key factors for success include a supportive technical environment, administrative cooperation, adequate training, connectivity, and local support.
CMMS significantly enhances biomedical maintenance efficiency and medical equipment availability in resource-limited healthcare environments.