Preliminary study on decision making factors to replace medical equipment in hospital

Maintaining medical equipment in hospital is a cost-deprived process yet is a crucial process that needs to be looked into. Maintaining is an ongoing process that starts with installation and ended up with disposed. The cost for maintaining equipment is often held a large portion in life cycle costing and huge amount of money need to be allocated to complete this process. The cost invested on maintaining the medical equipment should be worth the value without comprising the safety requirement and regulations. However, there are circumstances where hospitals are unable to decide when to dispose the equipment especially when the equipment reach the end of its life, incur high repairing cost, aging, and frequent failed to function. Management of hospital come into dead end solution as there are lack of proper guidelines on maintaining medical equipment and therefore the equipment may be over maintained or under maintained. This paper provides a review of 100 papers from credible sources on maintaining activities of equipment to identify factors that are important for decision making to replace the medical equipment

Decision-Making Framework for Medical Equipment Maintenance and Replacement in Private Hospitals

The process for medical equipment maintenance and replacement in hospitals is a challenging and demanding procedure. Further, the topic of making decisions to maintain or replace or upgrade medical equipment has been debated for a long time since errors equipment maintenance will increase equipment failure at undesirable times; or if early equipment replacement will result in high investment costs and premature disposal. Therefore, standard operating procedures or guidelines need to be in place to help healthcare facilities conduct a more organized and planned maintenance and replacement process. Many hospitals may already have established replacement guidelines or have implemented asset monitoring systems for this purpose. However, the effectiveness of this system has not yet been systematically evaluated. Several studies have been conducted on the same research topic, but most of the findings emphasize the replacement method rather than the criteria that contributed to the decision. Criteria for replacing medical equipment play an important role in ensuring that the equipment can be used cost-effectively. Thus, this research aims to identify important criteria that need to be considered for medical equipment maintenance and replacement focusing on private hospitals. This research was conducted in three phases: (1) a structured literature review; (2) semi-structured interviews with eleven (11) healthcare experts; and (3) a pairwise comparison survey with 50 biomedical engineers. A decision-making framework was developed based on the findings of these three research phases. The framework developed will provide guidelines for practitioners and academics to understand and make better decisions for medical equipment maintenance and replacement in the context of private hospitals

Cloud ERP Adoption-A Process View Approach

In spite of a wealth of studies on ERP adoption in recent years, prior studies have presumed ERP adoption as an immediate action rather than as a process. We also argue that cross-sectional research design does not adequately represent the complexity and the highly volatile nature of the process of ERP adoption. Based on a content analysis of one hundred studies on academic and vendor successes, we have identified 27 transition factors contributing to the adoption of cloud ERP. Building on two process research studies (Guttman et al. 1998; Klein and Sorra 1996), this research attempts to explore which transition factors are relevant to the distinct phases of cloud ERP adoption. These transition factors are classified as “necessary” or “sufficient”; where “necessary” transition factors need to exist in order for the firm to move to the next stage, while “sufficient” means assisting in the movement. This paper not only consolidates, but also extends the existing literature on the technology adoption process for complex organization-wide technologies. For practitioners, this study will assist ERP and cloud vendors in prioritizing and upgrading their business quality at any point in time during the adoption process, which would thus increase the likelihood of cloud-based ERP adoption among SMEs

A Review of Cloud-Based ERP Systems in SMEs

The adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) could offer significant benefits in terms of managing the resources and support business function. However, the traditional ERP systems are quite expensive and have complex procedures for the adoption especially for SMEs. With the introduction of cloud-based ERP systems that have similar functionalities with traditional ERP, SMEs are now able to adopt this system. However, the adoption of cloud ERP remains low and question arise on how to encourage SMEs to adopt this system. Drawing from management and Information Systems literature, this study proposes and conceptual framework for cloud ERP adoption among SMEs. Using archival analysis approach and technology-push and demand-pull as the theoretical background, this research has come out with six main themes namely:  firm qualities, internal pressure, external pressure, technology features, organizational readiness and external support. This paper will give significant benefits to ERP vendors to understand their potential buyer’s behaviour towards the adoption of cloud ERP

The Framework of Urban Farming Towards Enhancing Quality of Life In Malaysia

This study aims to explore urban farming activities that could improve the quality life of B40 groups in Malaysia. At the end of the study, a framework of  the quality life example (i.e social, economic, lifestyle and health) will be developed. This study has applied a mix method by combining three approaches including structured literature reviews, interviews and surveys. In first phase, a systematic literature has been done followed by the development and validating the research framework. Respondents for this study are among Malaysian citizens from B40 group that been selected on a voluntary basis. The framework was evaluated and validated by five experts and analyzed using Cohen’s Kappa Coefficient formula. The framework consists of (i) individual factors which comprise the aspect of intention, capital, knowledge and skill; (ii) internal factors which comprise the aspect of farm, ecosystem, technology, methods and techniques; as well as (iii) external factors which comprise market, government support, resources and funding in terms of enhancing quality of life. The framework is expected to bring a paradigm shift in exposing Malaysians to improve their standard of living while promoting the development of agricultural innovations standing with developed countrie

Mental illness action taken in workplace

It is approximately 450 million people have been analysed with mental illness around the world, where mental illness, substance abuse and neurological diseases contribute to 13% of the worldwide disease burden. The World Health Organization (WHO) gauge that 1 in 4 individuals experience mental illness at a few points in their life. That means almost 25% of the population has a mental illness. According to Datuk Seri Dr. S. Subramaniam Depression, on normal, accounts for 4.3% of the by and large burden of cobalt disease, which is one of the biggest causes of morbidity. Mental illness or also been called as mental health disorders, it is a wide scope of emotional well-being problem of scatters that impact your personality, considering and conduct. Tension issue, dietary issues, addictive practices, discouragement and schizophrenia which are the instances of dysfunctional behaviour

Structured Literature Reviews (SLR) of urban farming for improving economic status of urban residents

The increasing of urban population demands the development of new technologies that provide sustainable living. This issue might debilitate the quality life of urban residents though city life always associated with national economic growth engine and social progress. Many initiatives have been commenced in elevating the economic status of urban residents including urban farming activities. In Malaysia, several stakeholders have pushed the potential of urban farming activities that help to create job, increase income, and serve as an urban garbage sink. Nonetheless, research that investigated urban farming activities could improve the economic status of urban residents still very lacking. Thus, this research aims to explore potential urban farming activities through structured literature reviews (SLR). It searched all the selected databases and found 851 papers: 378 from ScienceDirect, 17 from Web of Science and 456 from Scopus. These databases comprised comprehensive literature that concentrate on urban farming activities in Southeast Asia. Subsequently, the process of filtering was achieved based on intelligent processes. The process consists of three iterations of filtering, excluding duplicate articles, filtering titles and abstracts and reading full text articles. About 90 articles has been derived for the final classification of urban farming sub-topics. The details of the key features of topics will be discussed in the research which include the following aspects: the motivation towards urban farming activities, the advantages of urban farming especially for increasing the economic status of urban residents. The finding from this research could be used for future researchers to understand several sub-topics that related with urban farming urban residents that remain unexplored

A Conceptual Framework to determine Medical Equipment Maintenance in Hospital Using RCM Method

Maintenance services are performed to ensure the equipment is operating according to manufacturer standard and maintained at a desired level of quality. The implementation of maintenance services may prevent unexpected breakdown and disruption of operations in a hospital. However, there were numbers of cases reported on the frequent breakdown of medical equipment even though the maintenance program is in place and practised. Therefore, the reliability of the maintenance services was questioned especially when the breakdowns occurred after the maintenance services being performed. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to determine the accurate maintenance program for medical equipment in the hospital using Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) method. The recommendation from the RCM will assist to identify the root cause of the breakdown and minimize the number of breakdown for medical equipment in the hospital. RCM process is known as one of the most effective maintenance approaches to reduce the number of maintenance activities and hence minimizing the cost of maintenance incurred

A Study on Digital Service Innovation Factors Influencing Organization Performance: Ajman Police Department In UAE

The study presented an analysis of the influence of four digital services innovation groups of factors on organizational performance. It identified 20 digital services innovation factors, which were categorized into four groups namely participation, inter-organizational collaboration, reflexivity, and responsiveness. The study focused on the Ajman Police Department in the United Arab Emirates and collected data through a structured questionnaire survey using a purposeful random sampling technique among the employees of the department that involved 368 completed responses from the employees. Statistical analysis was conducted using SPSS software. The study found that the five highest ranked factors by the respondents, which significantly impact organizational performance, are PP1 (Customer Feedback and Surveys), OC1 (Partnership with Complementary Service Providers), RF1 (Ethical Evaluation of Service Offerings and Practices), PP2 (Employee Brainstorming Sessions), and RS3 (Ongoing Market Research and Competitor Analysis). Additionally, the study established a mathematical model to predict organizational performance based on the four variables: participation, inter-organizational collaboration, reflexivity, and responsiveness. Furthermore, the study revealed that all five groups of factors, including organizational performance factors, are significantly correlated. This research contributes to the understanding of the impact of digital services innovation on organizational performance, shedding light on the specific factors that play a crucial role in driving organizational success in the digital era. The findings provide valuable insights for organizations seeking to leverage digital services innovation to enhance their performance and competitiveness &nbsp

Advantages and disadvantages of retrenchment

The stability of the job in a state or country usually depends on the condition of the economy in that country or state. Malaysia and many countries around the world have faced several economic downturns and recessions over the past year, this causes the slowdown of the economy and poor business conditions resulting in a slump in business due to the significant drop of the company’s profit. Companies that are suffering big losses may choose to restructure or reorganize their businesses to reduce the impact of poor business conditions. The wave of retrenchment usually hit the sectors of manufacturing, transportation, communication, commerce, and finance