Working with XHOSPIpro - in three steps
The working principle of XHOSPIpro can be described with three basic steps:
- Creating and editing life cycles: the life cycles are constructed of life cycle bricks from the data base or existing life cycles are copied and edited.
- Inserting and assigning values: values are inserted in value sets and assigned to life cycles or bricks.
- Analyzing results: the software offers a lot of possibilities to calculate, analyze, evaluate and compare the results of different products.
2. Editing and assigning data
The second step is to assign hospital values and product values to the life cycle. Procedure values are assigned to every brick of each life cycle. To offer the user a comfortable and known possibility to edit values the value sets are programmed as Excel-sheets. These sheets can contain automatic and easy calculation functions.
The following figure shows e of a hospital value set as an example.
This value sets calculates from the inserted values the part of the capital costs allocated to one batch and the sum of working time accumulated in different working steps of this specific brick. The procedure values of all value sets which are assigned to the examined product system or life cycle are considered for the calculation of the total results of the respective product system or life cycle. Similar value sets for hospital values and product values are available in the database of the software.
The software calculates automatically e.g. which part of the water costs of a sterilization batch is allocated to the sterilization of the examined product: the effective volume and the water consumption of the sterilization batch are specified in the procedure value set, the water costs are specified in the hospital value set and the volume the product occupies in the sterilization automate is specified in the product value set. The software allocates the water consumption of the sterilization batch proportionately to the volume occupied by the examined product. To calculate the water costs for the sterilization of the examined product, the water consumption allocated to the product is now multiplied with the hospital water costs. Each brick requires a certain set of values out of which the brick results are calculated with predefined functions.
The operative expense for editing the data is declining with every investigated product, because data once gathered and inserted can also be used for other investigations. The hospital value set has to be edited once and updated occasionally. When costs and consumption values for an instrument washing automate once have been edited, the corresponding value set can be used in every life cycle for any product that is cleaned in that washing automate. These experiences are also valid for life cycle bricks. After finishing a few investigations with XHOSPIpro there will be a reservoir of value sets available in the hospital, which allows the investigation of other products with much less expenses.
After the life cycle is constructed and specified with values the user can change from editing mode to checking mode in the software. Here it is checked whether necessary values for calculation are missing. It there are, the concerned brick is marked. The brick can be loaded and the special set and missing values are shown. The missing values can be set specifically for the brick or a value set which consist these values can be assigned to the brick.
