Assess the risks when setting a medical device in-service

  • Release version: Yokohama
  • Updated January 30, 2025
  • 1 minute to read

    • Assess the risks related to the patient safety identification and compliance risk management when setting a medical device in-service and submit the assessment to relevant approvers.

    Before you begin

    Important:
    Starting with the Xanadu release, Healthcare Computerized Maintenance Management System is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer activated on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details on the deprecation process, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base.

    To use maintenance and servicing workflows or inventory and management workflows, please see Clinical Device Management.

    • Your administrator must have configured a risk assessment methodology to set a medical device in-service within a medical device model.
    • You must have access to medical device in-service cases.

    Role required: sn_hcls_cmms.clinical_engineer or sn_hcls_cmms.sm_agent

    About this task

    You can also perform risk assessment in the Risk Workspace. For more information, see Perform advanced risk assessment in the Risk Workspace.
    Note:
    The risk assessment methodology to set a medical device in-service is the residual risk assessment type.

    Procedure

    1. Open your Workspace by navigating to All > Healthcare CMMS > Workspace.
    2. View medical device in-service cases assigned to you by navigating to Lists > Medical device in-service case > My cases.
    3. Click the link to the case associated with the medical device for which you want to assess risks.
    4. On the Record details pane in the Contextual side panel, click Assess risk.
    5. On the dialog box that is displayed, click the link to the risk assessment.
    6. On the HCLS risk assessment tab, click Start assessment.
    7. On the Risk assessment tab, complete the risk questionnaire to set the medical device in-service.
    8. Click Review and submit.
    9. To finish your assessment and send it for approval, click Save, and then click Request Approval.
    10. In the Add comments dialog box, enter your comments in the text box, and then click Submit.