Principles of organizing the maintenance of medical devices in clinical engineering departments
Abstract
Principles of organizing the maintenance of medical devices in clinical engineering departments
Incoming article date: 04.08.2025The article shows the importance of the role of clinical engineering departments to ensure high-quality comprehensive control of the state of medical equipment at all stages of its life cycle. The main resource of such departments is the competence resource of clinical engineers and their working time resource. In order to rationalize the use of these resources, we systematized the causes of failures of medical devices. Based on this, a number of general metrics were developed that characterize the adaptability of clinical engineering departments to the conditions of a specific medical institution, such as the competence profile of the department and the profile of the need for technical maintenance of medical devices. The use of these data made it possible to formalize the algorithm for managing the clinical engineering department, aimed at maximizing the useful use of the human capital of these departments.
Keywords: clinical engineering, clinical engineer, time budget, performance metrics, medical device maintenance