Gestão de tecnologia em saúde: avaliação de equipamentos eletromédicos em unidade de centro cirúrgico - Health technology management: evaluation of electromedical equipment in a surgical center unit

Objetivo: discutir como se dá a gestão dos equipamentos eletromédicos em saúde, adotado pela unidade de centro cirúrgico de um hospital universitário estadual situado no município do estado do Rio de Janeiro à luz da RDC Nº2 de 25 de janeiro de 2010. Método: trata-se de um estudo descritivo, exploratório do tipo estudo de caso. Realizado em um hospital universitário do estado do Rio de Janeiro. Pesquisa autorizada através do CAAE 67955617.0.0000.5259. Resultados: os resultados permitiram construir a discussão do caso, levando em conta os pontos mais significativos e gerando então 2 categorias. Categoria 1: gestão de equipamentos eletromédicos. Categoria 2: relação e usabilidade de equipamentos eletromédicos. Conclusão: conclui-se que não há conformidade com a RDC No 2, de 25 de janeiro de 2010 com a ausência de diversos fatores exigidos pela resolução, porém o caminho a ser percorrido pela Unidade de Centro Cirúrgico.

Exploring Health Technology Management Relevance to Safety and Quality in Hospital Care

Technology management is a key issue for innovation and quality in health care sector, which, in turn, implies effectiveness and safety considerations. It is valuable, to explore the influence of technology to safety management and quality in health environment, and so to dig into what topics arise from this relationship. The purpose of this study is to explore the relevance of Health Technology Management to safety and quality in health organizations from health professional’s perceptions and scientific evolution perspectives. Methodology and Theoretical Orientation: An exploratory based qualitative study was conducted. A semi-structured interview was administered to health professionals with professional and academic experience in clinical settings in Matanzas territory. There were selected the main issues raised from professional’s opinions. Additionally, there was examined the scientific development of this subject by means of a review of research documents published in Sciencedirect and Scielo databases. Findings: Main views were similar as to technology use, assessment and innovation impact on human errors, how they may condition clinical and therapeutic practices, health recovery as well as a risky care environment for patients and personnel. Conclusion & Significance: It is confirmed the importance of health technology management to safety and quality of health care as well as research.

Identification of Health Technology Management departments in Mexico’s State health services

To advance in the verification for the development of Health Technology Management (HTM) tasks that the State Health Services in Mexico have obligation to perform, the National Center for Health Technology Excellence (CENETEC) carried out a survey of information to identify the organizational areas in charge for such activities within each of the 32 States, since to date there is no reliable and up-to-date official information about them. It could be identified that not all States have a department with specific designation for HTM, that the vast majority of existing areas are lead by a biomedical engineering professional, and also, in most cases, they respond to infrastructure planning area directives. These findings seek to promote a discussion on the need to standardize across the country, regarding State Health Services, this type of services to improve the processes necessary for the integral management processes of medical equipment.

Clinical Engineering/Health Technology Management 2015 Global Update

Medical device systems Clinical Engineering (CE)/Health Technology Management (HTM) strategies and best practices are now well established in most first world and many developing countries (DC).Progress is being made to address identified gaps in DC CE/HTM, such as appropriate equipment selection and lifecycle management. One contributor to this progress is the 25 years of CE/HTM Seminars provided by WHO-PAHO, ACCE, and more recently, IFMBE CED, to 80 countries. There is also a new emerging challenge; the requirement for medical device (clinical data) integration (MDI) into electronic health records (EHRs) to improve care quality and safety (aka CE-IT).This study will review CE/HTM progress, gaps, and new challenges since the last study in 2011. It will provide a framework to direct the global CE/HTM movement forward in collaborative fashion, alongside other initiatives in 2015, such as the 1st International CE-HTM Congress and the Global CE Summit held in Hanzhou, China, in October, 2015.