Clinical Systems Engineering: New Challenges for Future Healthcare

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 needsExplains how to assess new healthcare technologies and what are the most critical issues in their managementProvides information on how to carry out risk analysis for new technological systems or medical softwareContains tactics on how to improve the quality and usability of medical devices INDICE: The evolution of clinical engineering: history and the role of technology in health careClinical engineering in growing markets: the china case studyClinical engineering in developing countriesClinical engineering for consolidated markets: Case study of EuropeHospital technology management Management of clinical complex systemsDecision support systems in healthcareHealth technology assessmentQuality and risk management for hospital systemsManagement of new technologies: sw and integrated systemsHuman factor engineering for medical devicesClinical engineering for disaster preparednessCertification of clinical engineersCareers and Education of clinical engineers

• ISBN: 978-0-12-803767-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 166
• Fecha Publicación: 04/01/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés