How the TMX platform turns clinical asset data into better equipment decisions

Keeping health systems equipped with reliable medical equipment is nothing new to biomedical technicians, capital planning committees, or health system IT teams. But clinical inventories keep growing while the workforces that manage them stay flat or shrink. Empowering these professionals to tackle critical challenges drives both the services and the technology Trimedx offers for clinical asset management.

Earlier this year, Trimedx launched a series of advanced features for its clinical engineering, clinical asset management, and medical device cybersecurity solutions. Those features were collectively called Trimedx-AIQ™, a name that reflected the potential of AI to enhance healthcare technology management (HTM).

This summer, Trimedx unveiled an updated brand identity aligned to its focus on optimizing medical device availability and productivity for healthcare providers. The change included more than a refreshed look. The capabilities introduced under Trimedx-AIQ are now fully integrated into the TMX platform. TMX combines proven methodologies, extensive industry data, and AI-native technology to deliver better equipment uptime and availability. That makes a meaningful difference for healthcare facilities and their patients.

What is the TMX platform?

TMX is Trimedx’s technology platform for performance intelligence. It is built on a service history of more than 7.4 million devices, with data on 90-95% of in-use U.S. medical equipment. That depth lets Trimedx turn clinical asset data into predictive insights that help prevent failures before they happen.

TMX works across four pillars: Maintain, Optimize, Protect, and Locate.

How does a clinical asset management platform like TMX improve data-driven equipment decisions?

TMX centralizes maintenance history, inventory levels, cybersecurity intelligence, and location data into one connected view. Teams then act on evidence, not assumptions. Technicians know which devices are likely to fail. Capital planners know which assets to repair, replace, or reallocate. Security teams know which risks matter most. Leaders know where every device is and whether it is ready for use. The quality of those decisions depends on how complete and current the data is. That is why the scale behind TMX matters.

The 4 pillars of TMX

TMX Maintain

TMX Maintain is the engine room of the platform. It supports responsive clinical engineering activities with actionable insights on how equipment is performing, where maintenance efforts are most needed, and where equipment status may be posing a risk to clinical operations. Real-time device monitoring and predictive analytics flag potential failures before they occur, which reduces unplanned downtime. Agents automate work order creation, recommend repair actions, and identify required parts.

The Technician Agent gives biomedical equipment technicians (BMETs) quick answers inside RSQ, Trimedx’s computerized maintenance management system. Less time searching means more time keeping devices ready.

TMX Optimize

TMX Optimize turns that operational truth into capital strategy with full clinical context. Medical equipment utilization drops to between 40% and 50% without a clinical asset management program¹, putting reactive capital purchases at risk of draining budgets without providing significant returns in productivity and patient throughput. TMX Optimize offers an AI advisory function that lets leaders analyze asset data and model scenarios based on budget limits, utilization, asset age, and service history. Health systems can then optimize existing inventory and defer up to 35% of projected CapEx.¹

TMX Protect

TMX Protect addresses medical device cybersecurity. It calculates prioritized risk, then routes the work back for mitigation. The pillar matches and classifies connected devices with up to 95% accuracy.¹ It draws on a vulnerability database compiled from more than 80 intelligence sources. Live device risk scoring ranks remediation by clinical impact, and work orders flow through RSQ so cyber action fits with ongoing maintenance. Creating a measurable, closed-loop process for addressing vulnerabilities reduces remediation time for cybersecurity projects by 75% on average.¹

New AI capabilities added in August let users track relevant information on cybersecurity risk factors and ongoing projects, making the process more accessible to stakeholders from the C-suite to the biomed shop floor.

TMX Locate

TMX Locate gives health systems visibility into where every asset is and whether it is ready for use. Real-time Location Services (RTLS) show devices across all sites of care, along with availability, maintenance status, and workflow activity. Rental spend management identifies unnecessary rentals and idle units. Mobile equipment management centralizes availability, cleaning status, and utilization for mobile medical equipment.

Together, these tools get devices to the point of need faster, reduce the risk of loss, and control expenses.

Why the connected approach matters

Each pillar is useful on its own. The value grows when they share data. TMX Maintain generates the work history that TMX Optimize uses for capital planning. TMX Protect sends remediation tasks back through TMX Maintain, providing a fuller picture of inventory health in the age of networked healthcare. TMX Locate shows which devices are available and where they are, giving health systems the opportunity to allocate them as efficiently as possible. Every decision draws on the same trusted source, built from more than 27 years of longitudinal insight.

What TMX means for health systems

TMX gives clients one platform and one name for a growing set of tools to tackle the biggest challenges in HTM. Our commitment to data-driven outcomes in clinical engineering, clinical asset management, and cybersecurity is unchanged. The TMX platform is the intelligence layer that connects these disciplines. For health systems managing larger inventories while relying on leaner teams, Trimedx’s latest leap forward supports a crucial goal: keep every device safe, secure, available, and ready for patient care. Discover the TMX platform.

Note: Trimedx-AIQ capabilities are now embedded across TMX, the Trimedx performance intelligence platform for clinical assets. TMX brings together Trimedx data, AI, and technology to deliver predictive intelligence across clinical asset management and performance.