With the rapid development of science and technology, medical equipment and medical diagnosis and treatment means of development is changing rapidly, a large number of new technologies, new equipment into the medical field, greatly improving the accuracy of medical diagnosis, improve the cognitive ability of the doctor, and promote the modernization of medical and health care undertakings, while at the same time on the management of medical equipment, the application of maintenance has also put forward higher requirements. Due to medical diagnosis, treatment technology engineering, intelligence, network trend is increasingly obvious, medical equipment for health care to support and ensure the role of the degree of increasing. And our medical equipment management technicians are mostly attributed to auxiliary departments, some belong to the logistics department, there is a trend of being weakened and marginalized. According to the actual clinical needs of our country, there is an urgent need to further strengthen the construction of the team of medical equipment management technicians in China. Therefore, there must be a group of medical equipment management technicians shoulder the management, application and maintenance of modern medical equipment.
According to the figures provided by "China's health statistics summary", there are currently 13,000 general hospitals in China with about 210,000 medical equipment management technicians. In addition, there are nearly 10,000 people engaged in the installation, commissioning and maintenance of medical equipment in the community. Nearly 50,000 health centers below the county level basically have no medical equipment management technicians.
China's three hospitals in the number of medical equipment management technicians accounted for only 5% of the number of medical personnel (the United States proportion of 15% to 20%); 10 million yuan of equipment assets can only be equipped with a person, the prefecture-level three (including three) hospitals with less than 10 million yuan of equipment assets equipped with less than one person. Existing personnel with college degree or above only accounted for 10% to 30%. Each year, medical equipment management and biomedical engineering graduates about thousands of people, which can adhere to the hospital engaged in the management of medical equipment is less than 1 / 3. As of 2005, China's opening of the medical equipment management program in higher education institutions have 86, of which Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, the Fourth Military Medical University and other nearly 50 colleges and universities to train undergraduate and postgraduate students, students engaged in medical equipment and medical engineering research work; the other graduates are engaged in medical equipment and medical engineering research work. Equipment and medical engineering research work; another part of the institutions such as Shanghai University of Science and Technology College of Medical Devices, Taishan Medical College and other nearly 30 institutions (including nine secondary health schools) is to cultivate skilled, practical talents as the goal, students are mainly engaged in the installation of medical equipment after graduation, debugging, maintenance, and after-sales service and other work.
In the hospital management in Europe and the United States, medical equipment management technicians and medical staff, nursing staff **** with the hospital to ensure the high-speed and effective operation." American Clinical Engineering Society" (ACCE) is responsible for all clinical engineers and clinical engineering technicians in various medical institutions for induction qualification. In the United States, there are currently 3,000 clinical engineers and tens of thousands of clinical engineering technicians. The Japanese Diet passed the Clinical Engineering Technician Law in 1987, which began to improve the national examination system for clinical engineering technicians, and so far, more than 10,000 people have passed the national examination and obtained a certificate of competency for clinical engineering technicians.
Prospects
Regulating the profession of medical equipment manager will provide reliable and effective application management, quality management, and technology management for hospital medical equipment. They play an important role in modernizing hospitals to improve diagnosis and treatment, ensure patient safety, and improve social and economic benefits.