Evidence-based capital plans your committee can approve
EmTav scores every asset in your fleet, ranks replacement priority on evidence rather than age, and phases the result to your fiscal calendar. One CMMS export in. A board-ready plan out.
Six questions every capital cycle turns on.
The assessment answers all six, in writing, with the reasoning attached.
Which assets require replacement this fiscal year?
What does one more year of deferral cost, per asset?
Which devices have passed end of support?
Where is this a fleet issue rather than a device issue?
How is the priority order defended to finance?
What carries into next year if only half is approved?
The EmTav Replacement Readiness Score™
A composite 0–100 score for every asset in scope, built from five weighted factors and resolved to four risk tiers. Every weight, threshold, and benchmark source is documented in the workbook you receive.
Bounded definitions
Every factor has a written definition and a qualifying threshold. Service strain draws on vendor-wait duration and corrective history, and applies only where the evidence meets a documented bar.
Evidence gaps handled explicitly
Where service history is too thin to judge a factor, that factor is withheld and the score is rebalanced across the remainder. A record with no history is never credited as a healthy one.
Citable benchmarks
Useful lives, criticality classification, and end-of-support states are anchored to published healthcare finance and clinical engineering standards, each cited by name in the deliverable.
Evidence over age.
Age alone ranks a well-maintained twelve-year-old device ahead of a six-year-old device on its third board failure. The RRS separates the two.
Four deliverables, populated with your data, owned by you.
Scored asset inventory
Every asset with its RRS, risk tier, end-of-support finding, replacement estimate, and target fiscal year. Live formulas and methodology tab included.
Executive dashboard
Fleet position, tier distribution, the age-versus-risk map, and the deferral ranking. Standard in every assessment.
Multi-year capital plan
Phased to your fiscal calendar, with the one-year deferral cost beside every line so the committee can trade off in the room.
Executive summary
Findings, recommendation, and reasoning in the language a capital committee uses.
Fifteen minutes of your team's time.
End-of-support research, useful-life benchmarking, and replacement estimates are EmTav's work.
Scoping call
Scope, asset count, fiscal calendar. Thirty minutes.
One export
Assets, plus work orders where available. Format confirmed first.
Data receipt
Sufficiency confirmed in writing. The clock starts here.
Research & scoring
Per-model research and RRS application.
Findings review
Your engineers test the scoring. One revision round included.
Delivered
Four deliverables, in your files. Three weeks, single facility.
A score is only as good as the record behind it.
The RRS reads install dates, model identifiers, service history, and acquisition cost. Where those fields carry migration defaults, duplicates, or gaps, the score shifts without a visible signal. The Inventory Data Integrity Review measures how much of your inventory is fit to plan from, and returns a prioritized worklist to close the gap.
Inventory Data Integrity Review →The review fee is credited toward a Capital Replacement Assessment for the same scope, on the terms confirmed in your engagement letter.
A summary you can forward to finance.
Independence
EmTav's revenue comes from the engagement alone. There is no equipment sale, service contract, software license, or vendor consideration attached to any recommendation, which is what allows the deliverable to stand in front of a capital committee.
Risk profile
Equipment and work-order records only. Protected health information is contractually excluded on a bilateral basis, so no business associate agreement is required. Liability is capped at fees. Client data is deleted at the close of the engagement. All deliverables are populated in the client's own files, in the client's own environment.
Three ways to apply the method.
Capital Replacement Assessment
Inventory Data Integrity Review
Full detail →Plan Refresh
Interactive Dashboard Package
ADD-ONThree answers that clear procurement early.
Equipment records only
The work runs on equipment and work-order data. Protected health information is contractually excluded on a bilateral basis, so security review stays a formality and no BAA is required.
Your data stays yours
Client data is deleted at the close of the engagement and any elected refresh term. Deliverables are populated in your files, in your tenant, owned by you outright.
Platform-complementary
EmTav reads an export and returns a plan. Where a capital planning module is licensed later, the assessment becomes its validated baseline and business case.
An independent capital planning practice.
EmTav is a healthcare technology advisory practice built on more than two decades of hospital and health-system biomedical engineering leadership.
The scope is deliberately narrow: medical equipment capital replacement planning, and independent review of the equipment data those plans depend on. Both resolve to the same question — what a fleet actually requires, and whether the reasoning will hold in front of the people who approve it.
Send one export. See what it says.
A thirty-minute scoping call establishes the export format, the scope, and the fixed fee.
Please do not include patient information in any message. EmTav does not request, receive, or process protected health information.