Safety clinical engineering

Some hospital administrators have learned that with the in-house availability of such talent and expertise, the hospital is in a far better position to make more effective use of its technological resources (Bronzino, 1992). By providing health professionals with needed assurance of safety, reliability, and efficiency in using new and innovative equipment, clinical engineers can readily identify poor-quality and ineffective equipment, thereby resulting in faster, more appropriate utilization of new medical equipment. Typical pursuits of clinical engineers, therefore, include ... 

Hertz E. 1990. Developing quality indicators for a clinical engineering department. In Plant, Technology and Safety Management Series Measuring Quality in PTSM. Chicago, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. 

This background provides a basis for the understanding of the role clinical engineering occupies in health care today. Clinical engineering developed with an early large emphasis on the maintenance, electrical safety, and electronics aspects of medical equipment. Some people, such as Scott S and... 

Enhancing patient safety The role of clinical engineering, white paper, American College of Clinical Engineering, Plymouth Meeting, Pa. 200. ... 

Clinical engineer. Familiar with performance requirements, detailed specifications, safety, efficacy, and aspects of systems integration. 

Hyndman, B., H., A Thirty-Two Year Perspective on a Clinical Engineer s Contribution to Patient Safety, Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, 2007, pp. 710-716. 

Evaluate. Clinical engineers evaluate equipment before it is purchased to ensure it meets standards of current patient care and safety. They may make recommendations on the equipment a health care system should purchase to provide patients with cutting-edge care. They may manage or coordinate service contracts or purchase negotiations and... 

As health care technology becomes more and more complex and complicated, a clinical engineer can act as a translator between information systems, medical equipment, and the patient. Clinical engineers bring creativity, curiosity, and analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills to the medical field. They may serve on health care system-wide committees that relate to process and performance improvement, quality control and inspection, new technology purchases, and patient safety. 

CAHTMA coordinated clinical engineering workshop/seminar on electrical safety for stakeholders in Malaysia. 

Conferences. Our society holds a regular Annual Biomedical Engineering Technology Conference taken place on the mid December of each year with the numbers of attendee increased to 1300 in 2009, and several promotion and training symposiums in clinical engineering, medical equipments and safety, and other specific academic topics. 

Certification Program. Our society presently initiated three certification programs, including clinical engineer, biomedical engineer, and medical equipment technician in 2004. The certification programs aims to consolidate better services, quality, safety issues, and developments of medical devices of healthcare in hospitals and industrials. 

Create a cross-disciplinary team that includes representation from clinicians, clinical engineering, information technology, and risk management, to address alarm safety. 

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