Surgical Scrubsuit Vending Machines: Moving Towards the Smart Hospital: SAVINGS, ORDER AND CONTROL

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New technologies help all types of organizations to advance in efficiency and facilitate management processes. Organizations need to focus on their key processes by delivering value to their customers and users. Hospitals around the world are experiencing a revolution in the field of automating the management of their materials, whether they are pharmacy materials, consumables or personal protective equipment. RFID technologies, management software and progressive integration with suppliers are booming trends.

Advantages obtained with scrubsuit vending machines:

Among all these solutions, intelligent vending systems that help manage the medical clothing and personal protective equipment for healthcare staff stand out. The management of these elements means for the hospital:

  • Time spent on administrative-logistical tasks (inventory, orders, product reception, delivery… it involves an added bureaucracy for hospitals).
  • A need to control the cost and guarantee of good use of the equipment. Public and private hospitals cannot afford to waste resources.
  • Ensure that these products are orderly, with a guarantee of storage hygiene and with controlled access. COVID19 highlighted that it is critical to ensure the availability of health PPEs in emergency situations and supply shortages.

Case Study

A success story can be seen in the vending machines for surgical scrubs. The following image shows a situation that is common in changing rooms and operating rooms of hospitals:

IMAGE 1: single-use disposable surgical scrubsuits on regular shelves: messy product, no traceability of use, mixed sizes, no inventory counting… in short, a situation of lack of control.

Innovative Healthcare Supplies:

The world’s leading suppliers of protective equipment, health and workwear are offering their customers to go one step further and to be able to go from being mere suppliers of products to becoming allies in service. Through an alliance with specialized partners such as GESMATIK, Specialized health suppliers help the hospital move from situation of IMAGE 1 to IMAGE 2

 

Surgic Scrubsuit Vending Machine

 

IMAGE 2: GESMATIK system for dispensing and controlling disposable surgical scrubsuits installed by the company Medline.

 

But how does GESMATIK work?

Gesmatik system is composed of:

  • a DISPENSING SYSTEM or exclusive VENDING MACHINE that allows to organize the different sizes of products. With a large capacity to hold product, it is always tidy and protected from contamination.
  • a CONTROL MODULE where accredited users identify themselves and select the product.
  • a MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE connected to the internet that offers information and advantages to the different figures involved:
    • Hospital managers can manage user profiles and restrict access, defining who the authorized users are and limiting the amounts they can draw from the machine.
    • Managers have real-time usage statistics, being able to have detailed information on the destination of the products (who has taken out which product at what time)
    • The supplier knows the stock situation at all times and knows when the product needs to be replenished.

The capacity of NEW HELIX PLUS 115 machine is unbeatable, a single machine can accommodate up to 420 complete disposable surgical scrubsuits.

GESMATIK is an autonomous system whose implementation is plug-and-play, it does not need the hospital to open its computer systems so its implementation is simple and fast, the hospital can see its advantages and savings from day one. The main suppliers of sanitary protective equipment are already offering it to their customers.