Abstract: A method of handling medical equipment status information. The method includes: receiving status information data from two or more pieces of medical equipment, wherein the status information data is received in a data format specific for each of the pieces of medical equipment; determining that the status information data indicate an error state of the pieces of medical equipment; assigning to each error state one or more global error categories of a predetermined list of global error categories, the global error categories not being specific to a certain piece of medical equipment among the pieces of medical equipment; and outputting error information data. The error information date including: identification data identifying a specific piece of medical equipment among the pieces of medical equipment, status information data received from the specific piece of medical equipment, and the one or more global error categories assigned to the detected error status.

Abstract: A provisioning system for endoscopes in an application environment including one or more examination rooms and one or more reprocessing stations for endoscopes. The provisioning system including a processor including hardware. The processor being configured to: receive first information about scheduled procedures, receive second information about a status of one or more endoscopes, the second information including an indication of whether an endoscope is ready for use, currently in use, or currently being reprocessed, and control a display to display a user interface having a graphical user interface. Wherein the graphical user interface includes: a first presentation area in which data about ready-to-use endoscopes is displayed, a second presentation area in which data about scheduled procedures is displayed, and a third presentation area in which data about endoscopes undergoing a reprocessing process is displayed.

Abstract: A provisioning system for endoscopes in an application environment including one or more examination rooms and one or more reprocessing stations for endoscopes. The provisioning system including a processor including hardware. The processor being configured to: receive first information about scheduled procedures, receive second information about a status of one or more endoscopes, the second information including an indication of whether an endoscope is ready for use, currently in use, or currently being reprocessed, determine from the first information and the second information whether a ready-to-use endoscope is or will be available for each respective scheduled procedure, and control a display to display an indicator which indicates whether a ready-to-use endoscope is or will be available for the respective scheduled procedure.