Healthcare Technology Management Systems (eBook)

Healthcare Technology Management Systems provides a model for implementing an effective healthcare technology management (HTM) system in hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promoting a new analysis of hospital organization for decision-making regarding technology. Despite healthcare complexity and challenges, current models of management and organization of technology in hospitals still has evolved over those established 40-50 years ago, according to totally different circumstances and technologies available now.

The current health context based on new technologies demands working with an updated model of management and organization, which requires a re-engineering perspective to achieve appropriate levels of clinical effectiveness, efficiency, safety and quality. Healthcare Technology Management Systems presents best practices for implementing procedures for effective technology management focused on human resources, as well as aspects related to liability, and the appropriate procedures for implementation.

• Presents a new model for hospital organization for Clinical Engineers and administrators to implement Healthcare Technology Management (HTM)
• Understand how to implement Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) within all types of organizations, including Human Resource impact, Technology Policy and Regulations, Health Technology Planning (HTP) and Acquisition, as well as Asset and Risk Management
• Transfer of knowledge from applied research in CE, HTM, HTP and HTA, from award-winning authors who are active in international health organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)

Professor Luis Vilcahuaman has a wide range of experience in research, analysis, and instruction in Clinical Engineering, including a Ph.D. from the University of Orleans, France and M.Sc. degree of the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil. He is currently a research professor at PUCP, and has been Research Director of numerous projects in the Applied Science category of the Technology, Science and Innovation Fund FINyCT/Peru, as well as the National Fund for Science and Technology Development FONDECyT/Peru. He is director of Health Technopole CENGETS and Director of the Biomedical Engineering Master Program at PUCP. He has been a consultant for healthcare technology systems for major national and international institutions such as the Pan American Health Organization, the World Bank, Developing Interamerican Bank, Social Security in Peru and San Salvador, Ministry of Health in Peru, as well as many Peruvian hospitals. He is researcher in clinical engineering and rehabilitation engineering. Professor Vilcahuaman is a member of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS-IEEE), International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), the American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE), International Discussion Forum for Global Exchange: Infrastructure and Technology of Health Services (INFRATECH) and Regional Council of Biomedical Engineering for Latin America (CORAL). He participated in the World Congresses of the World Technopolis Association (WTA). In 2010, he received the American College of Clinical Engineering-ACCE and ORBIS International Award for having demonstrated significant improvements in Health Technology Management-HTM as part of a group of more than 23 countries around the world.

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Healthcare Technology Management Systems provides a model for implementing an effective healthcare technology management (HTM) system in hospitals and healthcare provider settings, as well as promoting a new analysis of hospital organization for decision-making regarding technology. Despite healthcare complexity and challenges, current models of management and organization of technology in hospitals still has evolved over those established 40-50 years ago, according to totally different circumstances and technologies available now. The current health context based on new technologies demands working with an updated model of management and organization, which requires a re-engineering perspective to achieve appropriate levels of clinical effectiveness, efficiency, safety and quality. Healthcare Technology Management Systems presents best practices for implementing procedures for effective technology management focused on human resources, as well as aspects related to liability, and the appropriate procedures for implementation. Presents a new model for hospital organization for Clinical Engineers and administrators to implement Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) Understand how to implement Healthcare Technology Management (HTM) and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) within all types of organizations, including Human Resource impact, Technology Policy and Regulations, Health Technology Planning (HTP) and Acquisition, as well as Asset and Risk Management Transfer of knowledge from applied research in CE, HTM, HTP and HTA, from award-winning authors who are active in international health organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), American College of Clinical Engineering (ACCE) and International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE)