Support system for planning and medical equipment specification aiming hospital services

This paper presents a computer system for assisting the health care services planning and the acquisition process of medical equipment. After choosing one of the health services listed on screen, the computer system presents a second list of essential and secondary equipment for that specific service. To specify a chosen equipment from that second list, the user has to answer a series of predetermined questions that are also displayed on screen. At the end of the questionnaire, the program generates a report containing the equipment characteristics defined by the user for its acquisition. All those questions were defined for a given equipment based on data describing its own characteristics. The user is able to modify the predetermined questions to adjust them for a specific type of equipment. The answers, given by the users, are then stored by the system and presented every time a new specification for that type of equipment is made.