Clinical engineering : from devices to systems

✍ Scribed by Dori, Fabrizio; Iadanza, Ernesto; Miniati, Roberto

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 227
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Clinical Systems Engineering: New Challenges for Future Healthcare covers the critical issues relating to the risk management and design of new technologies in the healthcare sector. It is a comprehensive summary of the advances in clinical engineering over the past 40 years, presenting guidance on compliance and safety for hospitals and engineering teams.

This contributed book contains chapters from international experts, who provide their solutions, experiences, and the successful methodologies they have applied to solve common problems in the area of healthcare technology. Topics include compliance with the European Directive on Medical Devices 93/42/EEC, European Norms EN 60601-1-6, EN 62366, and the American Standards ANSI/AAMI HE75: 2009.

Content coverage includes decision support systems, clinical complex systems, and human factor engineering. Examples are fully supported with case studies, and global perspective is maintained throughout. This book is ideal for clinical engineers, biomedical engineers, hospital administrators and medical technology manufacturers.

• Presents clinical systems engineering in a way that will help users answer many questions relating to clinical systems engineering and its relationship to future healthcare needs
• Explains how to assess new healthcare technologies and what are the most critical issues in their management
• Provides information on how to carry out risk analysis for new technological systems or medical software
• Contains tactics on how to improve the quality and usability of medical devices

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front-Matter,Copyright,List of Contributors,Acknowledgments,IntroductionEntitled to full text1 - The Evolution of Clinical Engineering: History and the Role of Technology in Health Care, Pages 1-13
2 - Clinical Engineering in Growing Markets: The China Case Study, Pages 15-24
3 - Clinical Engineering in Developing Countries, Pages 25-29
4 - Clinical Engineering for Consolidated Markets: European Case Study, Pages 31-46
5 - Hospital Technology Management, Pages 47-61
6 - Management of Complex Clinical System, Pages 63-74
7 - Decision Support Systems in Healthcare, Pages 75-93
8 - Early Stage Healthcare Technology Assessment, Pages 95-115
9 - Integrated Risk and Quality Management in Hospital Systems, Pages 117-130
10 - Management of New Technologies: Software and Integrated Systems, Pages 131-141
11 - Clinical Engineering and Disaster Preparedness, Pages 143-165
12 - Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare, Pages 167-182
13 - Clinical Engineering Education and Careers: Overview at the University of Connecticut, Pages 183-196
14 - Certification of Clinical Engineers, Pages 197-215
Index, Pages 217-227