Guide to Maximizing the Efficiency of Your Patient Monitor Fleet

By Mai Sumlut

As a key component in almost any medical setting, patient monitors come in many varieties and sizes. Throughout the course of patient treatment, clinicians can use a combination of bedside and portable monitors. Keeping an entire fleet of patient monitors in good working order in any facility, especially a large hospital, requires expertise, time, and money.

Facilities can manage their patient monitors more efficiently while increasing cost savings by partnering with an equipment provider to help them source the monitors they need, and make sure they’re up and running with comprehensive service, repair, and parts. In this article, learn what to look for in a patient monitoring equipment provider in order to maximize your facility’s efficiency and its budget.

Cost-Effective Patient Monitor Sourcing

When choosing a patient monitor provider, it makes sense to work with a company that offers a large inventory of New monitors in various types, brands, and models. Look for a company who can offer monitors from all the top manufacturers including GE, Philips, Draeger, and more. 

While the biggest, most straight forward benefit of New monitors is the cost savings, professionally New medical equipment can also provide facilities with other benefits. A late-model, New patient monitor can integrate more seamlessly into an existing fleet, reducing staff training.

Med Vest Technology is well-known for its wide selection of patient monitors. Med Vest Technology can offer facilities professionally New monitors from top manufacturers, helping facilities find the equipment they need at a cost-effective price point.

Simple, Fast Service and Repair  

In addition to sourcing the right models, a true equipment partner can offer facilities flexible, simple service on their patient monitors with a quick turnaround. Be sure to ask a prospective equipment provider what their repair process entails. A reputable company will have simple, easy-to-use services that allow facilities to easily communicate equipment errors and send in their equipment for repair.

When choosing a patient monitor repair partner, be sure the company has the skills and expertise to be able to handle a variety of repairs on all major brands. The company should have thorough processes for repair and documentation, and this communicated effectively to customers. An easy way to determine whether a company is quality-focused is to ask if their processes have been certified by a regulatory agency.

Med Vest Technology offers patient monitoring repairs at component level. Repair technicians at Med Vest Technology understand how time consuming the repair process can be for facilities, so they have streamlined to process to be quick, simple, and easy to use. Avante’s patient monitoring repair processes have been certified with ISO 13485:2016. 

In-Demand Patient Monitor Parts

Beyond equipment sourcing and repair, a patient monitoring equipment partner can also give facilities access to component parts. Being able to easily order and receive patient monitoring parts allows hospital biomedical technicians to perform maintenance and minor repairs in-house, allowing them to quickly get the equipment back on the floor.

Med Vest Technology has one of the largest selections of patient monitor component parts in the industry today. With an inventory of both OEM- and Avante-brand replacement parts, Med Vest Technology empowers the biomedical community with the parts they need in their facilities. Med Vest Technology offers discounts and free shipping for large orders, helping to save valuable budget space.