CBM343 Clinical Engineering Syllabus:
CBM343 Clinical Engineering Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
● This course will provide a basic understanding of the clinical engineering profession, qualifications, roles, activities, and expectations.
● This course will enhance students to practice medical equipment and analyze challenges with their healthcare technology.
● This course will engage the students to work as a team to address problems and errors in medical devices.
● This course will help students to design better medical devices with computerized approaches.
● This course will expose students to explore the Health Technology Management systems with medical devices and supportive services with advanced application.
UNIT – I INTRODUCTION
Clinical engineering: Definition, Evolution, Role, Responsibilities, Functional status, History of clinical engineering and Technology in Health Care System, Enhancing patient safety.
UNIT – II MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
Strategic Medical Technology Planning, Scope , Clinical necessity operational support, strategic planning process – Technology assessment: Technology audit, Budget strategies, Prerequist for medical technology assessment – Management Practice for Medical Equipment – Device evaluation, Risk reduction, Asset management, ESHTA.
UNIT – III ESSENTIAL HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY PACKAGE (EHTP)
Introduction – Health care technology management – Package development: Methodology, Logical framework, Implementation, Information promotion and dissemination – EHTP Justification – EHTP matrix – EHTP advantages – Impact Analysis.
UNIT – IV CLINICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM INDICATOR
Clinical engineering: program services, Program database – Clinical Engineering Program management, Program indicator, Managing clinical engineering performance using program indicators – Indicator management process.
UNIT – V ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY FOR PATIENT SAFETY
Factors Contributing to Medical Errors: Heath Care Reimbursement, Health Care Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA), Patient Safety Best Practices Model: Bar coding, Computerized Physician Order Entry (CPOE), and Clinical data repositories – Process analysis, Methodology. Computerized medical equipment management systems.
TOTAL : 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
At the end of the course the student will be able to:
CO1:State the role of clinical engineers and discuss the basic concepts of medical and healthcare technology
CO2: Give the program and framework to recognize the errors of medical equipment
CO3:State the issues or errors in patient safety and formulate patient safety package system
CO4: Define the problem precisely and examine the possible issues using program indicators.
CO5: Demonstrate computer based equipment with automated system by using CPOE method.
TEXT BOOKS:
1. Ernesto Iadanza, Joseph Dyro, “Clinical Engineering Handbook”, Elsevier Academic Press, 2014
2. Robert Miniati, “Clinical Engineering from Devices to Systems”, Academic Press, 23-Dec2015 – Technology & Engineering