Clinical Engineering
eBook - ePub

Clinical Engineering

From Devices to Systems

  1. 244 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Clinical Engineering

From Devices to Systems

About this book

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

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Yes, you can access Clinical Engineering by Roberto Miniati,Ernesto Iadanza,Fabrizio Dori,ERNESTO IADANZA,FABRIZIO DORI in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Biomedical Science. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Evolution of Clinical Engineering: History and the Role of Technology in Health Care
  9. 2. Clinical Engineering in Growing Markets: The China Case Study
  10. 3. Clinical Engineering in Developing Countries
  11. 4. Clinical Engineering for Consolidated Markets: European Case Study
  12. 5. Hospital Technology Management
  13. 6. Management of Complex Clinical System
  14. 7. Decision Support Systems in Healthcare
  15. 8. Early Stage Healthcare Technology Assessment
  16. 9. Integrated Risk and Quality Management in Hospital Systems
  17. 10. Management of New Technologies: Software and Integrated Systems
  18. 11. Clinical Engineering and Disaster Preparedness
  19. 12. Human Factors Engineering in Healthcare
  20. 13. Clinical Engineering Education and Careers: Overview at the University of Connecticut
  21. 14. Certification of Clinical Engineers
  22. Index