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Clinical Engineering Handbook
About This Book
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.
- 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
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Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Section Editors
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Section 1: Clinical engineering
- Section 2: Worldwide clinical engineering practice
- Section 3: Healthcare technology management
- Section 4: Management
- Section 5: Safety
- Section 6: Professionalism, education, and ethics
- Section 7: Medical devices:Design, manufacturing, evaluation, and control
- Section 8: Medical devices: Utilization and service
- Section 9: Management of digital healthcare, information systems, and health informatics innovations
- Section 10: Engineering the clinical environment
- Section 11: Medical device standards, regulations, and the law
- Section 12: Health technology assessment
- Section 13: Introduction to human factors
- Index