Case Study: Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital achieves predictive medical equipment maintenance with JMP

Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital takes a predictive approach to equipment maintenance

Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, a 453-bed community-based hospital in Japan, needed a better way to balance patient safety with budget and financial goals as aging infusion pumps began causing more failures. Without a dedicated analytics team, the hospital turned to JMP to help its clinical engineers analyze device reliability and determine when equipment was approaching the end of its useful life.

Using JMP®, the hospital built predictive survival models for 166 infusion pumps and used the results to justify a planned replacement strategy. JMP’s analysis showed that about 28 pumps were likely to fail within a year and supported updating devices by the ninth year of operation; after implementation, deterioration-related malfunctions fell to zero in fiscal 2018, no repair requests were sent to the manufacturer, and maintenance costs dropped significantly.

Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital

Hideaki Kamijyou

Clinical Engineer