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Configuration
Management Medical
Configuration
management medical is another important area that has not been fully
addressed yet. The obvious focus from the configuration management
side is to fully identify, record, and report on IT components,
including their versions, constituent components and relationships.
Items that should be
under the control of Configuration Management include hardware,
software and associated documentation. Now from the health
perspective it is imperative to have total control over everything
that is remotely associated with patients and patient
care.
Configuration
management medical – basic activities
The basic activities
are no different than for any other organization however, in this
situation they become even more important!
The basic activities
of Configuration Management are as follows:
- Planning. Planning and
defining the purpose, scope, objectives, policies and procedures,
and the organizational and technical context, for Configuration
Management.
- Identification. Selecting and
identifying the configuration structures for all the
infrastructure's CIs, including their 'owner', their
interrelationships and configuration documentation. It includes
allocating identifiers and version numbers for CIs, labeling each
item, and entering it on the Configuration Management Database
(CMDB).
- Control. Ensuring that only
authorized and identifiable CIs are accepted and recorded, from
receipt to disposal. It ensures that no CI is added, modified,
replaced or removed without appropriate controlling documentation,
e.g. an approved Change request, and an updated specification.
- Status
accounting. The reporting of
all current and historical data concerned with each CI throughout
its life cycle. This enables Changes to CIs and their records to
be traceable, e.g. tracking the status of a CI as it changes from
one state to another for instance 'under development', 'being
tested', 'live', or 'withdrawn'.
- Verification and
audit. A series of reviews
and audits that verify the physical existence of CIs and check
that they are correctly recorded in the Configuration Management
system.
THE ASSET MANAGEMENT TOOLKIT
Each
item included is of the highest quality, tailor made to cover a
different aspect and issue. It includes presentations,
questionnaires, guidelines, fact sheets.... and whole gamut of
material specifically put together to both introduce and take you
through Asset Management.
It comprises the
following components (click
here)
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