Main description:

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.

Contents:

The evolution of clinical engineering: history and the role of technology in health care
Clinical engineering in growing markets: the china case study
Clinical engineering in developing countries
Clinical engineering for consolidated markets: Case study of Europe
Hospital technology management
Management of clinical complex systems
Decision support systems in healthcare
Health technology assessment
Quality and risk management for hospital systems
Management of new technologies: sw and integrated systems
Human factor engineering for medical devices
Clinical engineering for disaster preparedness
Certification of clinical engineers
Careers and Education of clinical engineers