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MicroMain Releases New Maintenance
Management System for Healthcare
MicroMain XM for Healthcare Is Company’s First Industry-Specific CMMS
(May 11, 2005) AUSTIN, TX— MicroMain Corporation, a leading provider of asset and facility management software and services, today announced the release of MicroMain XM™ for Healthcare. This is the company’s first industry-specific version of its flagship computerized maintenance management system (CMMS)/enterprise asset management (EAM) system.
Hospitals have successfully used the standard MicroMain XM system for the past decade to automate work orders, schedule labor, complete inspections, and generate reports. MicroMain XM for Healthcare primarily addresses increasing requirements, including detailed compliance reports, for regulatory agencies.
With the new version, hospitals can create reports and action plans—recorded and updated on a regular basis—required by regulatory agencies. For JCAHO, for example, hospitals can now easily track data related to their Plan for Improvement (PFI) and Statement of Conditions (SOC). This software provides a simple way to flag PFI-related equipment and track when it becomes compliant. Assets that are part of a hospital’s SOC are also identified. Administrators can then verify proper execution of policies and procedures related to the SOC-related assets.
MicroMain XM for Healthcare also meets the specific needs of a hospital’s facilities department and clinical engineering/biomedical department.
“MicroMain XM for Healthcare provides the tools for facilities and clinical engineering to effectively manage and maintain their respective environments,” said Joe Jurzec, a Partner with Viasant LLC in Chicago, which specializes in CMMS implementations for hospitals. “Each department can easily track the information needed for work performance, top-level internal reports, and regulatory compliance.”
Viasant worked closely with MicroMain to help design this specialized CMMS for the healthcare industry. Jurzec, who manages CMMS services for Viasant, has provided consulting services for many hospitals in the Chicago area. Professionals in both facilities and clinical engineering at these hospitals provided input into the development of MicroMain XM for Healthcare.
“Documenting what you do and building a service history is extremely important in healthcare,” Jurzec added. “The fields and data structure in MicroMain XM for Healthcare now make that easy for hospital managers. They’ll also appreciate being able to put their hands on that information quickly when they need to answer questions.”
For the facilities department, MicroMain XM for Healthcare helps managers maintain plant and physical assets for optimal patient care. Ensuring continuous facility operability, for example, includes precisely maintaining redundant electrical back-up systems. Managers can also assign priority to healthcare equipment, such as Life/Safety and Critical Utilities, to better respond to work requests and properly schedule preventive maintenance.
A hospital’s clinical engineering department must manage internal clinical assets and clinical equipment owned by other departments. With MicroMain XM for Healthcare, this department can associate equipment with patient IDs to provide a patient usage audit trail. The software also enables managers to identify equipment that may be HIPAA related to ensure compliance when used or serviced.
Risk assessment is also a key feature in MicroMain XM for Healthcare. With this software, hospitals identify patient and staff equipment risk and link that risk to the equipment or area being serviced. The risk assessment offers independent scoring for both facility and clinical applications, as well as a date stamp for time of assessment and identification of the person providing the assessment.
“Hospital CFOs are going to be very pleased to reduce costs by using our new software for both facilities and clinical engineering,” said Pat Conroy, President of MicroMain. “Equally important, hospital managers will gain operational efficiencies and meet the growing requirements of regulatory agencies. MicroMain XM for Healthcare clearly meets a market need, and we’re confident many hospitals will take advantage of the healthcare-specific functionality provided in this easy-to-use system.”
About Viasant
Viasant (www.viasant.com) is an industrial maintenance and management company offering industrial cleaning and maintenance application services to large corporate enterprises. The company’s clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as large healthcare institutions. Viasant’s services are driven by organizations’ need to increase resource and asset utilization, safely and effectively. These services include CMMS consulting, implementation, training and support, particularly in healthcare. Viasant is headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
About MicroMain
MicroMain Corporation (www.micromain.com) provides award-winning asset and facility management software and services to organizations worldwide. With MicroMain’s easy-to-use systems, customers simplify maintenance operations, improve facility management, and reduce costs. Since 1991, more than 2,700 customers—in education, healthcare, hospitality/recreation, manufacturing, property management, corporate facilities, the public sector, and many other industries—have chosen MicroMain for their maintenance and facility needs. Privately owned, MicroMain is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
MicroMain XM is a trademark of MicroMain Corporation.
Copyright © 2005 MicroMain Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Karen Roller
Director of Public Relations
MicroMain Corporation
512-328-3235 x24
karenr@micromain.com
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