Endoscope cleaning management system, endoscope cleaning management method, and recording medium

An endoscope cleaning management method for managing implementation of a manual cleaning of an endoscope consisting of a plurality of steps, comprising:

• receiving, by one or more processors comprising hardware, step information indicating a completed step during the manual cleaning of the endoscope;
• determining, by the one or more processors, based on a user input through a user interface, a scheduled completion time of the manual cleaning of the endoscope when implementation of one or more steps of the plurality of steps is skipped;
• determining, by the one or more processors, based on a status and remaining cleaning time information received from a first cleaning apparatus configured to clean a predetermined type of endoscope that has been manually cleaned in a procedure in which the one or more steps is skipped, an available time at which the first cleaning apparatus becomes available to clean the endoscope;
• and
• when the step information received indicates a predetermined step that comes before a final step of the plurality of steps,
• determining, by the one or more processors, that the available time is after the scheduled completion time of the manual cleaning of the endoscope when implementation of the one or more steps of the plurality of steps is skipped;
• in response to determining that the available time is after the scheduled completion time, determining, by the one or more processors, a time difference between the available time and the scheduled completion time is within a predetermined time period;
• and
• in response to determining that the time difference is within the predetermined time period:
• selecting, by the one or more processors, the first cleaning apparatus to clean the endoscope after the scheduled completion time of the manual cleaning;
• and
• controlling, by the one or more processors, one or more user interfaces to notify a user of the selection of the first cleaning apparatus to clean the endoscope.

An endoscope cleaning management system that manages implementation of a manual cleaning of an endoscope consisting of a plurality of steps, comprising:

• one or more processors comprising hardware, wherein the one or more processors are configured to:
• manage utilization status of a first cleaning apparatus that can clean an endoscope that has been manually cleaned in a procedure in which one or more steps are skipped and utilization status of a second cleaning apparatus that cannot clean an endoscope that has been manually cleaned in a procedure in which the one or more steps are skipped but can clean an endoscope that has been manually cleaned by performing all the steps;
• acquire first identification information for identifying an endoscope to be manually cleaned;
• determine a cleaning apparatus to be assigned to the endoscope based on the utilization status of a plurality of cleaning apparatuses;
• receive step information indicating a completed step during the manual cleaning of the endoscope;
• record implementation information indicating that the step has been implemented based on the step information received in connection with the first identification information;
• acquire the first identification information for identifying an endoscope to be mechanically cleaned;
• acquire second identification information for identifying a cleaning apparatus for mechanically cleaning the endoscope;
• determine whether or not the implementation information recorded in connection with the first identification information satisfies a condition for using the cleaning apparatus identified by the second identification information;
• and
• give notice that the endoscope cannot be mechanically cleaned if the condition for using the cleaning apparatus is not met.