Università Roma Tre

PART 1
Clinical engineering: glossary of terms; definition and classification of medical devices; national and international outlook of clinical engineering; clinical engineering competences. Inventory, national classification of medical devices (CND); global medical device nomenclature (GMDN). Entity-relationship diagram models.
Operating principles of a selection of medical devices; reading, comprehension and writing of the technical specifications.
PART 2
Management and maintenance of medical devices: probability theory fundamentals for the maintenance of medical devices: reliability and availability; failure rate, and other relevant indicators; costs and times; maintenance strategies, roles and duties.
PART 3
Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) in the healthcare sector; health technology assessment: indicators of clinical efficacy (QALY, DALY); economic burden. Risk evaluation and minimisation; relevant indicators.
Regulations in the healthcare sector (national level), and comparison at the international level; WHO directives and recommendations. Bismarck-Beveridge and mixed models.
PART 4
Efficiency of a healthcare structure: indicators for outpatients and inpatients;

Slides, exercises and other material freely available for students on the University moodle platform.
Further readings:
- C. LAMBERTI, W. RAINER. LE APPARECCHIATURE BIOMEDICHE E LA LORO GESTIONE, PATRON EDITORE, 1998.
- F. PINCIROLI, S. BONACINA. APPLICAZIONI DI SANITÀ DIGITALE, POLIPRESS, 2009.