Biogerance, for an establishment or an institution of the health field , consists of, handing in partially or totally the management of its medical devices pool (appliances for the medical or para-medical field) to an external service provider.

In accordance with the establishment action plan, the following aspects will be managed :

• Medical devices stocktaking, with real time location and status
• Quality Control and preventive maintenance timetable follow up
• Quality insurance
• Technological watch services
• Medical devices vigilence system follow up
• Regulations

Biogerance is not a simple externalisation of biomedical services, as it also implies a responsability transfer that can include

The equipment interservices or interoperators collaborative software development

• The equipment pool status expertise, audit and consulting, regarding its aging and conformity to the current instructions and regulations,
• Health and technical risk management,
• The different maintenance management : preventive, curative and predictive
• Statutory quality control management,
• Internal biomedical functions piloting process,
• Project management including optimization of devices, good use and organisation,
• Medical devices end of life management (deconstruction, technological waste processing and sorting…),
• Hospital bedside service dematerialisation, i.e. permanent or temporary use of external devices, put at their disposal if needed in order to provide technical platform continuity,
• Ongoing cost evaluation of equipment pool ownership,
• Practitioner consulting and informing regarding technical improvement,
• Accessories and Disposables management and consulting (cables, transducers, …),
• The keep-up of practitioners good use standards
• Follow up and external audit allowing service or medical unit quality certification