25Apr

The digital revolution: the impact on the healthcare and hospital equipment manufacturing sector

April 25, 2023 tedisel

The digital revolution has had a major impact on many sectors, and one of those that has seen significant change is the healthcare and manufacturing hospital sector worldwide.

Digitalisation has brought with it a number of benefits and challenges in these fields. It is therefore important for healthcare organisations and companies in the hospital sector to stay ahead of the curve in order to continue to provide quality and competitive services in the future.

Digitalisation as a key factor

Digitalisation is crucial to making healthcare more sustainable. Especially the ability to collect and analyse data more efficiently.

Digital technologies such as electronic medical record management systems, hospital Data Networks, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, as well as the most innovative medical equipment, make it possible to store an infinite amount of data, access patients’ medical records electronically, identify patterns, reduce costs, predict disease risk and, in short, make better decisions in the field of hospital healthcare.

In this regard, we can also highlight the digital revolution in healthcare brought about by 3D printing technology and virtual reality. For example, it is being used in the training of doctors and surgeons to allow them to practice procedures in a simulated environment before performing them on real patients.

The importance of being in the spotlight of the digital revolution

Tedisel is confident that automation and artificial intelligence will continue to play an increasingly important role in the sector. That is why we focus on innovation to offer solutions that are more efficient to use. From the development and enhancement of the technical panel systems Q PANEL and DIAMOND to the configuration of our own HERMES software system that guarantees and analyses the secure transmission of data in a centralised and user-friendly manner.

In order for this digital revolution to be carried out with maximum guarantees, it is also essential to have durable and resistant medical equipment, optimally designed to guarantee hygiene and conservation.

The choice of hospital equipment is not a trivial matter, as medical environments are very busy and there is always a risk of possible contamination contact.

Challenges

Despite the benefits of the digital health revolution, there are also other important challenges such as the protection of privacy and security of patient data, and the digital divide between healthcare organisations and patients.

The best solutions for the healthcare industry

Tedisel Medical contributes to the digital revolution in the medical sector by offering solutions with great benefits for healthcare professionals:

Ease of use
Our Hermes operating room control software enables the medical and nursing team to use multiple devices and to easily listen to and interact with each other in such critical and fast-paced environments as operating rooms, with a clear voice and simple and clear listening to information.

Improved time management
Mobility solutions in a hospital environment can have a positive impact on healthcare staff, allowing them to save time and better serve patients, something that Hermes and the QPanel and Diamond technical panels contribute to.

Staff safety
Implementing connector devices that incorporate alarm systems can help healthcare workers perform their work in a safe and secure manner.

Protecting patient data
Hermes is also able to help preserve patients’ privacy and confidential data: it locks personal mobile devices in restricted areas, allows staff to check medication and update and share clinical information and electronic health records without leaving the patient’s bedside, etc.

Improving patient safety
This is a priority. The use of sensors and optimal designs with high technology, thinking in the whole of each hospital area, help the wellbeing of patients.

All these Tedisel solutions exist thanks to technological development and the digital revolution in the health sector, which highlights the need for hospital equipment adapted to the needs of an increasingly digital and technological world.

17Mar

Progress and challenges of hospital engineering in medical equipment

March 17, 2023 tedisel

Today we want to find out about the most important developments and challenges in hospital engineering and medical equipment, the changes in the healthcare landscape and what the healthcare industry is facing.

Hospital engineering: a growing discipline

Hospital engineering combines engineering, architecture and medicine in order to improve efficiency and safety, comfort for patients and healthcare staff.

In recent decades, great advances have been made globally, always with the focus on the introduction of state-of-the-art technologies in the design, construction and equipment of hospitals. Modern hospitals are designed for today and tomorrow by maximising efficiency in patient care through the use of state-of-the-art materials, devices and technologies. We are talking about cleaning systems, living comfort, operating theatres, etc.

In particular, advanced medical equipment, such as CT scans and MRIs, the promotion of information technologies (ICT) and the development of new materials and designs/aesthetics of medical devices, such as technical panels, columns, headboards… In our case, we are manufacturers of hospital equipment for hospitalisation areas, critical areas and surgical block for public and private hospitals all over the world.

These elements are particularly noteworthy in helping to improve the patient experience and complete more comfortable and accessible facilities, adopting a holistic approach to medical care.

Unstoppable progress

Going into more detail, some of the most recent developments in this area include:

Information and communication technologies (ICT): Hospitals are increasingly connected for better information management and efficient decision-making.
Tracking and monitoring systems: Enabling faster and more accurate care in case of emergency through telemedicine and interconnectivity thanks to wearables, home health gadgets and other elements.
Automation systems: Automation systems, such as robots and medical devices with Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, are helping to reduce the number of human errors and increase efficiency in hospitals.
Cutting-edge equipment: There is a firm commitment to bring cutting-edge hospital equipment to hospitals, always with the study, ergonomic design and efficiency of the work areas for the comfort of the patient, the medical team and the technical service.

The greatest challenges in hospital engineering

Beyond the advances and progress that we can see, we also find challenges, obstacles and barriers in hospital engineering, such as:

Lack of access to quality health care services in rural and low-income areas.
Lack of funding and rising cost of health care
The paradigm shift to sustainability
Problems in integrating and implementing new technologies
Challenges of security, cybersecurity and access to information with the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT)
Balancing efficiency and quality

What does the present and the future hold?

At Tedisel Medical we are aware that hospital engineering is evolving rapidly, in a constant search for solutions that improve efficiency, safety and quality in hospitals.

“There are also major challenges to be addressed, such as financing, integration, safety and the integration of the latest medical equipment.”

26Oct

Tedisel Medical, in the 39th Seminar of Hospital Engineering of Valencia

October 26, 2022 tedisel

Tedisel Medical has been present in Valencia, from 19th to 21st October, to participate in the 39th Hospital Engineering Seminar – National Congress, organized by the Spanish Association of Hospital Engineering (AEIH).

This event, which took place at the Palacio de Congresos de Valencia, has successfully closed its 39th edition, bringing together again the most prestigious speakers of the sector with lectures and workshops that took place throughout the three days.

Medicip Health and Tedisel, together in Valencia

On this occasion, we participated in the Hospital Engineering Seminar in Valencia with our partner Medicip Health.

Medicip Health is an international Spanish company dedicated to the development, manufacture and distribution of healthcare technology, being a pillar for the digitization of nursing homes and hospitals and the achievement of healthcare excellence.

At the new stand, Medicip presented the patient-nurse system SIDI FLANDES, one of the most advanced technological solutions for hospitals and clinics, which consists of an advanced software that can be integrated with access control and our secure and reliable EN54 evacuation system.

In our case, during the three days we exhibited the new AIS bed head unit on the stand, which are fully customisable and integrate perfectly with SIDI FLANDES. We also displayed all the virtues and benefits of the rest of our Tedisel products, like bed head units, suspended systems, pendants, technical panels and Hermes software.

A nationally recognised trade fair

After the successful 38th edition, held in Gijón, the Hospital Engineering Seminar, organised by the AEIH, was held in the city of Valencia with the aim of bringing together professionals from the sector.

This fair is one of the most important within the healthcare industry as it allows us to learn about the latest ideas in development, technological innovations and opportunities for improvement within the field of engineering dedicated to healthcare.

This is why this national congress was once again very well attended with a scientific/technical programme in which, as always, renowned national and international personalities took part.

This essential forum on the national healthcare scene has taken on the challenge of playing a key role in the hospital sector. Thus, the meeting was based on two of the objectives, models and tools without which the management of new healthcare models cannot be understood: Innovation and Evolution.

The importance of attending trade fairs for companies

In Tedisel Medical we are aware of the importance of participating in this type of fairs in the sector. Attending an event of this magnitude with a stand is the perfect opportunity to show the benefits of our products or services to our clients, suppliers, etc. This Seminar, in particular, is always the ideal place for those

“This event is the most important meeting forum in the hospital engineering sector and allows us to have the opportunity to greet customers and partners, with whom we have been working for many years. It is very important for us to exchange information and serves as a thermometer of the state of the sector.”

_ Luis Guallar. Commercial Director of Tedisel Medical

Thus, attendance at trade fairs, especially in B2B environments, is a crucial element for the communication of companies, and offers multiple possibilities for attendees.

We can highlight that:

They are a platform for innovation that helps to be more competitive.
It facilitates exposure and personal product presentations
It allows to retain and expand the customer base
It boosts the increase of exports

In short, participating in trade fairs of this magnitude allows companies to evaluate their competitors by exchanging information and meetings, in order to attract and retain new and potential customers.

Here you will find some photos of Medicip Health’s stand, where they exhibited their product SIDI FLANDES perfectly integrated with our AIS headboard with the Barcelona skyline design.

18Jan

Hospital engineering for the design of the hospitals of the future

January 18, 2022 tedisel

The work of hospital engineers is essential to introduce new technologies and materials in hospitals.

Hospital engineers are professionals whose recognition is usually not related to their importance in clinical management. These professionals play a key role in achieving centres that are more sustainable and adapted to the new social and health realities..

Nobody is aware that the future of hospitals lies in the development of the concept of smart hospitals. And it is in this evolution where efficiency, safety and well-being of the patient come into play as absolute priorities.

What is Hospital Engineering?

Hospital Engineering is a branch of health that is oriented towards the management, planning, analysis, design, development and implementation of technologies that offer alternatives and improved solutions to the problems of the hospital environment. How? Using the latest technologies, especially in the health sector.

The modernization of the hospital sector is a palpable reality of the last decades that, in this case, has generated the need for engineers specialized in medical equipment and sanitary facilities.

This hospital engineering related long ago to the mere maintenance and good use of hospital buildings, facilities and equipment, today it is already an obsolete concept. In fact, it is one of the professions that are evolving the most and that will evolve the most.

Thus, the hospital engineer has adopted a multidisciplinary and proactive role, collaborating and making decisions about the new hospital equipment and advanced technologies to be implemented in the centres. In this regard, the hospital engineer is in charge of aspects such as:

• Advise on investments and new facilities.
• Direct minor works and supervise contracts.
• Manage financial and human resources
• The technical-legal responsibility of the facilities.

Therefore, these professionals are increasingly important in clinical management, such as electrical safety solutions for hospital facilities.

Case study: the health management of Covid-19

Despite not being healthcare personnel, hospital engineers have played, play and will play a decisive role in centres and hospitals that have to deal with the fight against SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 epidemic.

The global pandemic has revealed how important the proper functioning of a hospital is in terms of electrical safety, infrastructure, supplies and equipment.

Thus, in hospitals, the engineering and maintenance departments are responsible for critical supplies such as medicinal gases, water, electricity or fuels.

Improvisation or lack of management is known to lead to both financial loss and poorer healthcare. For this reason, it is important to manage everything that these concepts encompass, starting with the electrical system, the central nucleus of the operation of a hospital. Hospital engineering works at this point to control, for example, that the electrical supply will be effective under any circumstance, that the fuel tanks of the generating sets are full, or that newly built hospitals have two electrical connections in case of fault.

More specifically with COVID-19 patients, their consumption of medicinal oxygen is very high, so it is vital that the supply is guaranteed and that the reserves are adequate. It is also necessary to control the elements that are not affected by the extreme variation in temperatures or other factors, as well as to try to avoid consumption by bottles, being more advisable in exceptional cases to use gas ramps.

Another strategic point is air conditioning, the final comfort of healthcare personnel and patients. For this reason, it is more than necessary to ensure the supplies of natural gas or diesel, or of the hot and cold batteries.

A process that has decisively affected the health management of Covid-19 and that will mark the future of future health is divestment. The lack of economic support experienced in recent years has been noted and more than in this pandemic, “increasing the effects of the crisis”, as indicated by Luis Mosquera, President of the Spanish Association of Hospital Engineering (AEIH).

Mosquera also points out that it is urgent to invest in hospitals to make them “lighter and more elastic”.

The role of hospital engineering in designing the hospitals of the future

Behind the maintenance and good use of the technology that is made in Spanish hospitals are the hospital engineers. In short, it is an essential element in the introduction of new technologies and materials in the health sector.

Engineers are partners in the new technologies that are going to be implemented in the hospital, their knowledge seems key for the management of this determinant technological component that goes hand in hand with the hospitals of the future.

Each equipment used in medicine will integrate an Engineering component, both software and hardware. A fact that is not trivial and to which the investment to update hospital centres must also respond accordingly.

Hospital engineering has arrived, as can be seen in the fact that several Spanish cities carry out their plans in terms of infrastructure for the next five and ten years, since an optimal planning of architecture in Hospital Engineering is needed.

This network of qualified professionals will help to obtain greater benefits from telemedicine, to promote methodologies to avoid providing medical services at a distance, to implement Big Data or Artificial Intelligence, etc.

In short, rethinking hospitals to make health buildings more sustainable and safer.

Hospital engineering is a global issue in which the United States and China are already putting a lot of effort, and in countries like India it will reach a new dimension: by 2024, its hospital spending is expected to reach 2,000 million euros per year.

Hospital engineering and electrical safety

Another area in which hospital engineering has a lot to contribute is in the electrical safety of hospitals.

The energy supply is essential not only in exceptional moments and of great hospital pressure such as the aforementioned pandemic, eventual natural disasters or critical situations. At such times critical areas such as operating rooms or ICUs have a high work rate, so electrical safety plays an essential role in the medical care of patients and, of course, to facilitate the work of healthcare professionals.

“The energy supply is essential not only in exceptional moments and of great hospital pressure such as the aforementioned pandemic, eventual natural disasters or critical situations.

On the other hand, considering that technology is increasingly present in hospitals and health centres through programs, software, machines, etc … It is important to have hospital electrical safety solutions that will ensure the proper functioning of all the medical services offered.

Planning the hospitals of the future

A light, adaptable hospital, with the appropriate infrastructures and prepared to adapt to the new and changing realities of the sector. This is the model of the health centre that will be established in the future.

A concept that has gained more acceptance than ever with the COVID-19 crisis: the global health structure is not prepared to face enemies and situations like that.

Therefore, the work of hospital engineering will be to ensure that hospitals are safe and intelligent spaces that adapt optimally and quickly to specific and temporary needs. To reduce the rate of improvisation, the work of hospital engineers to design contingency plans will be essential. And, fundamentally, guaranteeing electrical safety or making the design of hospitals more flexible, such as having spaces prepared to house mobile wards, hospitalization areas that can be transformed into ICUs, etc.

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