I will be attending a meeting soon to discuss the feasibility of our EBME department using WIMS as an equipment management system. We presently use Microsoft Access, which has been tailor-made for our department by one of our own technicians. And I have to say that it is really excellent. Everyone loves using it, and it does everything we want, including the storing of the service history of each item of equipment.
However, our Estates manager insists that we are going against Government guidelines because we are not using the Trust's official asset register. I have tried to argue that we are only using a database of "medical electronic equipment' and not a duplicate database of Trust assets, but I cannot seem to win this argument, and we are being forced to use WIMS, much to my disgruntlement!
Has anyone got any idea to what extent WIMS is being used for EBME management?
Has anyone got any views on WIMS in general?
