Banco Informatico Tecnologico e Biomedico O.N.L.U.S.

2. A new life for Hospital’s
dismissed equipments
• Speaker : Federico, Cesari
• Function : President
• Organization : Banco Informatico Tecnologico e Biomedico
• Country : Italy
19 & 20 November 2013
Chamonix Mont-Blanc / France

3. Who we are
• Not-for–profit Association aiming at delivering Technology to other
Not-for-profit Associations
• Our mission: “supporting who supports”
• 3 sectors
I.T. : Refurbish PCs
Biomedical Division:
Give new life to second hand equipment
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Techsoup – software donations
Chamonix Mont-Blanc / France

4. The Origin of BITeB
• BITeB was born in 2003 thanks to a donation of computer from
Lombardy Region due to an accident occurred and to recovering of all
data in the computers; those computers have been asked by a
Missionary in south American to build a school
• The Biomedical division was added to the I.T. one in 2005 following the
requests received from an Engineer in Palestine that has been able,
thanks to friends working in Hospitals in Italy, to completely restructure
the Hospital where he was working in Nazareth
• The Techsoup division was born in 2010 thanks to a global program
involving Microsoft, Symantec, Cisco and many other hardware and
software companies
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5. Goals and Objectives
• The main goal is to transfer old but running technologies to the
developing countries to support the growth of schools and hospitals
• Our objective is to maintain a high standard of quality in the projects
we manage to ensure that all the equipment we deliver will be working
for many years, can be easily maintained with spare parts and
technicians, and over it will be very useful to our beneficiaries
• Practically we want to grant to our beneficiaries that the material they
are asking for is the right one, it will be consistent with the
environment, it can be maintained and repaired in the following years
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6. Why a Biomedical Division
• Today we have in our country a huge availability of medical equipments old
but working
• Between the sector operators, due to the quick technology switch, is growing
the awareness to be able to take advantage from the residual life of dismissed
equipments.
• The technologies transfer towards developing countries is limited, occasional
and when it happens, is often inadequate to the real needs of local structures
• Main obstacles for the bank activities:
– Low technical knowledge of operators
– Political internal constraints in the destination countries
– Transportation costs and customs clearance
– Installation, formation and maintenance
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7. The Biomedical Division
How it works
TRANSLATION
DONATIONS
LIST OF GOODS
REQUEST
TESTING
DELIVERY
SAFETY
REFURBISH
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LOGISTICS
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8. Operational criteria
BITeB reacts to the needs of organizations demanding support through the:
•
Identification of real specific need of the hospitals
•
Identification of a local technical referent
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Creation of a database of single situation and needs
BITeB systematically answers to the demands through the:
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Collection of equipment and furniture in the healthcare environment
•
Equipments and goods refurbishing and transfer to developing countries
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Installation on site and user’s training
•
Support through a technical Help desk for usage and maintenance
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9. How we manage it
Donors:
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Public hospitals in Lombardy
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Private hospitals
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Manufacturers
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Two different sites for offer and request of goods
www.biteb.org
www.benidismessi.it
Public hospitals in Italy
Beneficiaries:
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Healthcare structure in
Developing countries
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Auxiliary structures:
orphanages, rest house
–
Organization, Association,
foundations with projects
in developing countries
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10. Our Activities: the way to ensure real help
• Project design
• Selection of goods
• Regeneration
• Packing
• Shipping
• Installation
• Training
• Maintenance
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11. HTA
Health Technology Assessment
• Sustainability
• Operability
• Low cost
• Low maintenance
• Environmental compatibility
• Safety and Quality standards
Quality is important in every
project
We need to ensure it
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12. HTA
Health Technology Assessment
• Sustainability
• Operability
• Low cost
• Low maintenance
• Environmental compatibility
• Safety and Quality standards

13. Difficulties we found
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Lack of knowledge of beneficiaries with requests not clear and complex
•
Lack of interest for some donor and bureaucracy
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Transportation and Customs issues
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Direct involvement in project from Associations with no expertise
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Sales of used equipment by Hospitals
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14. Results since 2005
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More than 150 projects completed
•
More than 12.000 goods donated of which more than 1.200 equipments
•
More than 6.000.000 € donated as economic value
•
260 Association accredited
•
3 Hospital dismissing completed
•
4 continents and more than 40 Countries covered
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15. Why to continue
…the courage to
have a dream
and the
competencies to
realize it
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16. THANK YOU
WWW.BITEB.ORG
Ing. Federico Cesari, PhD
federico.cesari@biteb.org