Healthcare Water Control Point Maintenance Tracking System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack an efficient method for facilitating water control point maintenance and compliance verification across multiple healthcare facilities, campuses, and geographical locations, posing challenges in infection risk management and regulatory compliance.
Innovation Solution
A computer-based system that includes a server processor, database, and user devices for technicians and supervisors to manage and track water control point maintenance, providing status displays, editing interfaces, and reporting features to ensure regular servicing and compliance, with offline capabilities and communication through electronic addresses for user accounts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual tracking of water control point maintenance is used, then system complexity is reduced, but productivity and compliance verification efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables technicians to self-service by autonomously logging maintenance activities, updating control point statuses, and generating compliance reports without requiring manual intervention from administrators. The automated reminder system also serves itself by proactively notifying technicians of upcoming maintenance requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical tracking methods with an electronic computer-based system that automatically monitors, tracks, and reports on water control point maintenance status across multiple facilities, eliminating the need for manual spreadsheets and paper records.
2Reliability
If comprehensive tracking across multiple facilities is implemented, then compliance verification is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the comprehensive tracking function into facility-level and control point-level views, allowing users to navigate through hierarchical structures (facilities → campuses → buildings → rooms → control points) to manage and verify compliance across multiple locations without overwhelming complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides universal functionality by serving multiple users (technicians, administrators, compliance officers) and multiple facilities through a single integrated platform, enabling all users to access, update, and verify compliance information from any location.
3Productivity
If automated maintenance scheduling is implemented, then productivity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-scheduling maintenance tasks based on predetermined intervals and automatically generating reminders before the actual maintenance is needed. This ensures timely completion of maintenance activities without requiring complex real-time decision-making during execution.
Data Source
AI summary
A system and method for facilitating healthcare water control point maintenance and compliance includes a server in network communication with user devices of technician users and supervisory users. A server database stores room data for each of a plurality of rooms, including a room identifier, group identifiers of location groups with which the room is associated, types of water control points within the room, prescribed service interval for each of the types of water control points, quantity of each type of water control point within the room, service completion status, and date of last service completion. Technician users are able to review rooms in which water control point service is required, and input information about the status of the control points they service. The supervisory users can view status data concerning each water control point based on various selectable location levels, including room, floor, building, campus and company levels.