Introduction
Debbie Peet, Emma Chung in Practical Medical Physics, 2021
In recent years, Clinical Engineering departments have expanded their procurement and equipment management roles. Clinical Engineering departments take responsibility for performing equipment checks for a wide range of medical technologies. Larger hospitals may also include engineers that are involved with research and innovation, with the main emphasis on supporting research projects involved with the development or assessment of medical devices. Clinical Engineering teams require a range of skill sets and expertise, and it is very common to see such services being managed by qualified Clinical Scientists specialising in clinical measurement, clinical or medical technology in Medical Physics, medical device risk management and governance, or medical engineering.
The evolution of health care education in Nigeria
Joseph A. Balogun in Health Care Education in Nigeria, 2020
The over 5,000 members of the NIBE are mostly drawn from the related science and classical engineering disciplines of members employed at the universities and hospitals as well as from other institutions/organizations (NIBE, 2015). The profession is structured into five divisions: biological engineering, medical engineering, clinical engineering, rehabilitation engineering, and biomedical physics /allied sciences, to accommodate virtually every field in the sciences. In 2003, the NIBE was admitted as the 50th member of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the same year, the NIBE co-founded the African Union of Biomedical Engineering and Sciences while some of the members were on a Medical Equipment Training course in Ghana (Nkuma-Udah et al., 2005).
Preparing healthcare, academic institutions, and notified bodies for their involvement in the innovation of medical devices under the new European regulation
Published in Expert Review of Medical Devices, 2022
Francesco Garzotto, Rosanna Irene Comoretto, Lorenzo Dorigo, Dario Gregori, Alessandro Zotti, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Gino Gerosa, Mauro Bonin
To support the increasing clinical, technical, organizational, and economic activities required by the MDR and HTA regulations and to implement a value-based approach, health-care institutions should establish dedicated hospital MD units (MDUs): a facilitator point where ‘offer and demand’ for industry, health care (including clinic, organization, and economy), NBs, and academia intersect their needs (Figure 1). This unit should aggregate different expertise to cover all aspects required by the novel regulation: physicians for the implementation and management of clinical trials that will provide clinical outcomes; experts in health economics as a reference for cost-effectiveness and budget-impact analysis; scientific bioengineers for providing technical output [47] (usability, verification/validation procedures, biocompatibility, human factor evaluations, testing methodologies, support to clinical trial design, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and regulatory affairs); statisticians for the design of appropriate research protocols according to clinical, engineering, and economic aims. Furthermore, as discussed above, close collaboration with universities is strategic for the continuous improvement of scientific methodologies [47]. If this setting is already present in some recognized clinical units or research institutes, this approach should also be established in hospital centers of clinical excellence. Importantly, MDU should be ‘experts in certain conditions and treatments rather than try to be all things to all people’ [45].
Health and budget impact of combined HIV prevention – first results of the BELHIVPREV model
Published in Acta Clinica Belgica, 2018
Sebastian Vermeersch, Steven Callens, Stéphane De Wit, Jean-Christophe Goffard, Marie Laga, Dominique Van Beckhoven, Lieven Annemans
Sebastian Vermeersch [PhD] is a passionate health-economic professional. After graduating as a computer science engineer in 2003 and obtaining an additional degree in biomedical and clinical engineering, he obtained his PhD working in Ghent and Paris on practical applications of arterial stiffness modelling and the development of European reference values for arterial Stiffness. After a brief stay as research coordinator at the Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, he has been working at hict, an independent healthcare consultancy company, since 2012. As coresponsible of the Value Management team, his main interests lie in health-related value quantification and health-economics.
What is the fertility-enhancing effect of tubal flushing? A hypothesis article
Published in Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2022
Inez Roest, Amir M. Hajiyavand, Marlies Y. Bongers, Velja Mijatovic, Ben Willem J. Mol, Carolien A. M. Koks, Karl D. Dearn
This article is the first to provide an overview of the published data on the potential mechanisms, the hypotheses, of the fertility-enhancing effect from tubal flushing. However, the amount of evidence for each hypothesis is limited and the current knowledge behind the hypotheses is partly based on in vitro studies and/or animal studies. Nevertheless, summarising the insights from animal studies is an important first step in determining subsequent human studies. Our hypotheses are drawn from critical analysis of medical and clinical engineering research sources.
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