Predictive Maintenance Is Defining The Future Of The Medical Device Industry
Internet of Things (IoT) has brought in a new wave of digital transformation. With an increasing focus on offering value-added services, manufacturers are now adopting IoT as a tool to resolve problems faster and effectively. IoT is most critical to the medical device industry as a precursor to enhanced patient care. Healthcare organizations are moving more toward cloud-based IT infrastructure, to better automate processes. In fact, IoT-enabled medical devices can now be remotely monitored to predict possible problems and proactively resolve them thereby improving the uptime.
IoT offers a host of solutions for a win-win scenario for both the lab and the manufacturer.
Predictive maintenance
Planning for upgrading via cloud-based lab management systems and sophisticated software is a good way to future proof products and reduce the cost of maintaining the instrument. The days of preventive maintenance are long forgotten, now is the time for predictive maintenance. Devices with IoT capability can send out alerts to the technical support when components are exhibiting faults and initiate actions to resolve them.
24×7 remote access
In the traditional approach, a device manufacturer provides an after-sales service to solve a problem with the instrument in case of a breakdown. This could result in repeated visits by the sales team to first diagnose the problem and then fix it. However, with IoT, the service team can receive real-time reports. Technicians can thus remotely access the instrument and get information on the performance and repair history and other details that can help them save time. This will further help the organization to improve their TAT and customer satisfaction.
Optimizing patient outcomes
Manufacturers can utilize IoT data for compliance monitoring and to evaluate the performance of an instrument and optimize test results real time, with QC rules and calibration trends. This can be integral to making the device more useful to the end-user.
Improve operational efficiency
Devices fitted with IoT sensors can provide information on the usage of the instrument. This is particularly relevant for a diagnostic laboratory that is faced with a major challenge of optimizing capacities of capital equipment.
Likewise, IoT data can be used to track the usage, expiry, and consumption of reagents for each test, to allow efficient management of lab inventory and utilization. Alerts can be sent for replenishment, when there is depletion.
Transasia gives its customers the convenience of connected devices
Transconnect, Transasia’s cloud-based system, has helped equip labs with cutting-edge technology to improve patient treatment outcomes and enable better analytic insights. Its sophisticated software provides the team with real-time updates, prompting timely intervention to avoid a breakdown. In addition, a round the clock application support guarantees a seamless lab workflow. IoT sensors integrated in the instruments provide extensive information on the consumption of reagents and thus enhance the efficiency of the lab.
