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Clinical Engineering Handbook

  • 2nd Edition - December 4, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Editor: Ernesto Iadanza
  • Language: English

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Clinical Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, covers modern clinical engineering topics, giving experienced professionals the necessary skills and knowledge for this fast-evolving field. Featuring insights from leading international experts, this book presents traditional practices, such as healthcare technology management, medical device service, and technology application. In addition, readers will find valuable information on the newest research and groundbreaking developments in clinical engineering, such as health technology assessment, disaster preparedness, decision support systems, mobile medicine, and prospects and guidelines on the future of clinical engineering.As the biomedical engineering field expands throughout the world, clinical engineers play an increasingly important role as translators between the medical, engineering and business professions. In addition, they influence procedures and policies at research facilities, universities, and in private and government agencies. This book explores their current and continuing reach and its importance.

Key features

  • Presents a definitive, comprehensive, and up-to-date resource on clinical engineering
  • Written by worldwide experts with ties to IFMBE, IUPESM, Global CE Advisory Board, IEEE, ACCE, and more
  • Includes coverage of new topics, such as Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Decision Support Systems (DSS), Mobile Apps, Success Stories in Clinical Engineering, and Human Factors Engineering

Readership

Researchers, professionals, and students of clinical engineering and biomedical engineering; health technology managers, healthcare managers, and healthcare organizations

Table of contents

Section 1 Clinical Engineering
Section 1 Overview

1. Clinical Engineering:

2. Open Source Medical Devices: Healthcare Solutions for Low- and High- Resource Settings

3. Success Stories in Clinical Engineering

4. RFID technology in healthcare

5. Computer Aided Facilities Management

6. Public Procurement Of Innovative Medical Technology: Femtosecond And Excimer Laser Platform For Ophthalmic Surgery

Section 2 Worldwide Clinical Engineering Practice
Section 2 Overview

7. Clinical Engineering in the United Kingdom

8. Clinical Engineering in Canada

9. Clinical Engineering in Colombia

10. Clinical Engineering in Mexico

11. Clinical Engineering in Paraguay

12. Clinical Engineering in Peru

13. Clinical Engineering in Venezuela

14. Clinical Engineering in Japan

15. Clinical Engineering in Brazil

16. Clinical Engineering in the Middle East

17. Clinical Engineering in China

18. Clinical Engineering in Argentina

19. Clinical Engineering in Italy

20. Clinical Engineering in India

21. Clinical Engineering in Poland

22. Clinical Engineering in Australia

23. Clinical Engineering in Chile

24. Clinical Engineering in USA

25. Clinical Engineering in Albania

26. Clinical Engineering in South Africa

27. Clinical Engineering in Uganda

Section 3 Health Technology Management
Section 3 Overview

28. Introduction to Medical Technology Management Practices

29. Good Management Practice for Medical Equipment / Leadership

30. Health Care Strategic Planning Utilizing Technology Assessment

31. Technology Evaluation / US and Global perspectives

32. Technology Procurement / Strategic Acquisition Planning/Replacement

33. Equipment Control and Asset Management

34. Computerized Maintenance Management Systems

35. Maintenance and Repair of Medical Devices (Healthcare Technology)

36. Outsourcing Clinical Engineering Service

37. Health Care Technology Replacement Planning

38. The integrated Health Care Technology Package

39. Impact Analysis

40. CE-IT, cybersecurity, CE-IT HTM

41. Metrics, Indicators, Analytics

42. Standards of Practice (HTM Best Practice Guidelines and Standards of Practice Around the World)

43. Single-Use Medical Devices Reuse and Reprocessing

44. Clinical Systems Integration Support

45. A framework for medical device safety

46. ACCE ACEW Update

Section 4 Management
Section 4 Overview

47. Quality Management Systems

48. Personnel Management/Skills Identification

49. Management Styles and Human Resource Development

50. A Systems Management Framework for Medical Device Safety and Optimal Outcomes

Section 5 Safety
Section 5 Overview

51. Patient Safety Revisited

52. Risk Management

53. Hospital Safety Programs

54. Medical Device Regulations and Patient Safety

55. Single Use Injection Devices

56. Electromagnetic Interference in the Hospital

57. The Great Debate on Electrical Safety - In Retrospect

Section 6 Professionalism, Education and Ethics
Section 6 Overview

58. Professionalism

59. American College of Clinical Engineering

60. Clinical Engineering Certification in the United States

61. Clinical Engineering Internship

62. HTM Training in the USA

63. Distance Education

64. In-Service Education

65. New York City Metropolitan Area Clinical Engineering Directors Group

Section 7 Medical Devices: Design, Manufacturing, Evaluation, and Control
Section 7 Overview

66. Technology in Health Care

67. Medical Device Design and Control in the Hospital

68. Medical Device Research and Design

69. Comparative Evaluations of Medical Devices

70. Evolution of prosthetic feet and design based on Gait analysis data

71. Challenge in surgical robot development

72. Developing and launching a medical device: a fresh engineering point of view

Section 8 Medical Devices: Utilization and Service
Section 8 Overview

73. Anaesthesia machines

74. Cardiovascular techniques and technology

75. Device Inspection

76. Hospital bed

77. ICU

78. Imaging

79. Incubator

80. Maintenance

Section 9 Information Technology and Mobile Apps
Section 9: Overview

81. The Digital Hospital of the 20th Century, and Information Systems Management

82. The Integration and Convergence of Medical and Information Technologies

83. Telehealth, Telemedicine, and Telecare

84. Artificial Intelligence In Medical Devices And Clinical Decision Support Systems

85. A Practical Framework for Medical Device Interoperability Conformity Testing (IHE PCD)

86. Application of HL7® FHIR for Device and Health Information System (HIS) Interoperability

87. Enterprise Image Management and Medical Informatics

88. Maintenance of Complex, Converged, and Interoperable Medical Device / Information Systems

89. Forensics and Accident/Incident Investigations for Interoperable Medical Device and Information Systems

90. New Opportunities for BME/CE Health IT Education

Section 10 Engineering the Clinical Environment
Section 10 Overview

91. Physical Plant and Fire Safety

92. Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

93. Electrical Power

94. Medical Gas Systems

95. Construction and Renovation

96. Radiation Safety

97. Infection Prevention and Control – A Clinical Engineering Perspective

98. Water Systems in Health Care Facilities

99. Disaster Planning and Emergency Preparedness

100. Healthcare Engineering in a Resource Constrained Environment

Section 11 Medical Device Standards, Regulations, and the Law
Section 11 Overview

101. Standards and Regulations

102. Regulations and the Law

103. Hospital Facilities Safety Standards

104. Healthcare Quality and ISO IEC 17020

105. Medical Equipment Management Program Standards - ANSI/AAMI EQ56 and ANSI/AAMI EQ89

106. Clinical Engineering Standards and Practice

107. European Union Medical Device Directives and Vigilance System

108. United States Food & Drug Administration

109. Legal Metrology Framework for Medical Devices

110. Increasing of Accuracy and Efficency of Medical Devices In Legal Metrology System of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Section 12 Health Technology Assessment
Section 12 Overview

111. Introduction to Health Economics and HTA

112. HTA of Medical Devices: criticisms and peculiarities

113. eHTA

114. MCDA in eHTA

115. Hospital Based HTA

116. Generation of Evidence in biomedical engineering

117. Systematic literature review and Meta-analysis: the case of medical devices and medical locations

118. human factors and system thinking for medical device: evidence to design, evaluate and generate value

119. Health Technology Assessment teaching for BME

Section 13 Introduction to Human Factors
Section 13 Overview

120. Physiological and Psychological Aspects

121. Cognitive Ergonomics

122. Environmental Research and Design

123. Clinical Decision Making

124. Safety Science

125. Medical Devices

126. Health IT

127. Patient Facing Technology

128. Cognitive Informatics

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2019
  • Language: English

About the editor

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Ernesto Iadanza

Ernesto Iadanza, BME, CE, M. Sc., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor in Clinical Engineering and Research Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence. He is currently a member of the IFMBE Administrative Council, chairman of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering/Health Technology Assessment Division Board (IFMBE/HTAD), Immediate Past Chairman of the Clinical Engineering Division Board (IFMBE/CED. He is also IEEE (and IEEE-EMBS) Senior Member and received the IBM Faculty Award in 2013 and the IFMBE/CED Teamwork Award in 2019. Associate Editor of “Health & Technology” and of “Future Internet”, Section editor of the International Journal of Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Assessment (CEHTA), Member of the Editorial Board of China Medical Devices Journal and of the Journal of Healthcare Engineering. Guest editor for the journal Health and Technology (Special issue: “Global issues in Clinical Engineering”). Co-chair, member of the scientific committee, track chair and session chairman of many national and international scientific conferences in Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Engineering and HTA. Dr. Iadanza is the organiser of postgraduate master courses in Clinical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering and HTA at the University of Florence since 2007. Supervisor in 190+ graduation theses. Author of 145+ publications on international books, scientific journals, volumes and conference proceedings.
Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor in Clinical Engineering and Research Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Italy

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