in primary care medicine, deciding how to invest a practice’s precious capital resources is becoming more difficult. Purchasing procedural medical equipment is something many physicians may consider, and sales representatives for the equipment can always make the investment sound enticing. But how do you really know if the investment will be beneficial to you – financially or otherwise? Wheth...

Hospitals outsource several activities of the service support in order to focus on the core healthcare production as maintenance service. Recently, faced to the sophistication and the costs of medical equipment that continue to escalate, governments have implemented new reforms to control costs and improve the efficiency and the quality. Hospitals become interested in minimizing the total opera...

Current reimbursement schemes imply different incentives for health care providers, among which there are the ones related to the adoption of technology. Several empirical studies have investigated the links between the pattern of medical technology adoption, particularly medical equipment, and a few determinant factors, among which reimbursement mechanisms. Most of these studies, however, focu...

Journal of Medical Device Regulation May 2006 The third edition of IEC 60601-1 represents a major overhaul of the IEC 60601 family of medical electrical equipment safety standards. First published in 1977, IEC 60601-1 has become the ‘bible’ of electromedical equipment safety and the parent standard of over 60 particular device standards ranging from diagnostic electrocardiographs to electron ac...

Clinical Engineering Department in hospitals need to take decision for Health Care Technology assessment which includes purchase, maintenance, use, and replacement. In this paper we proposed a analytical hierarchy processes -group decision making (AHP-GDM) model to prioritize the medical equipment for replacement. The model structure includes 11 quantitative and qualitative factors descending a...

We tested the melodic alarms and mnemonics proposed in the international standard for alarms used in medical electrical equipment (IEC 60601-1-8) for learnability and discriminability, with 14 registered nurses over two days, approximately a week apart. Two learning modes (Mnemonics and No Mnemonics) were examined in computer administered tests. The first experimental group was supplied with mn...

The evolution of biomedical technology has led to enhanced use of medical devices in healthcare delivery. Clinical Engineering Departments (CEDs), in order to improve their services and monitor the outcomes, are introducing more and more telematic means. In the present work, a new computerized, integrated, windows oriented system intended for CED management is proposed. The system model is base...

There are analytic methods for designing protective barriers however, they lack sufficient efficiency and considering the NCRP (National Council on Radiation Protection and measurements) reports, designing mechanical protective barrier in order to protect the initial x-ray radiation and absorption of the ray quality of such radiation is different. In this study, computer software was designed t...

The importance of efficient utilization of expensive imaging equipment has been brought to full public attention by the current health care debates. In particular, the use of imaging equipments such as Computed Tomography (CT), Mammography (MG) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is known to contribute to the rising cost with health care. Though medical practices and research attempt to addres...

T he role of medical devices, such as bronchoscopes, in the transmission of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has long been recognized, however, the evidence that environmental and medical equipment surfaces play a role in the transmission of HAIs has been weak. Studies have demonstrated that pathogens can be transmitted from surfaces to personnel and patients, and that these pathogens ar...