Medical and technical departments have the following characteristics:
(1) All work centers around the clinic, facing the whole hospital, for the clinical medical services. Medical and technical departments, although self-contained system, constitutes a part of the hospital, but its business work is mainly for the clinical medical departments to provide the basis for diagnosis and treatment, or with the treatment, directly or indirectly for the outpatient, emergency and hospitalized patients to provide technical services, but also for the hospital's scientific research and teaching services. Clinical departments have a strong dependence on medical and technical departments, especially on medical and technical departments with advanced and modernized diagnostic and treatment equipment. The technical level of the medical and technical departments, the quality of their work, and the accuracy and timeliness of the results of the examination reports have a direct impact on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, and also affect the effectiveness of the hospital's medical treatment, scientific research and teaching work. Each specific examination program is related to the quality of diagnosis and treatment of a clinical department. Visible, medical technology department in the hospital medical work plays a pivotal role.
(2) medical and technical departments are highly specialized and relatively independent. Each medical and technical departments have their own professional division of labor, and have their own work characteristics and rules. Even if the same department, different instruments and equipment installed in different separate rooms, from the operation to the report are completed independently, with the independence of work. This requires technicians must have strong business and technical skills and sense of responsibility, with serious and responsible, meticulous work style.
(3) with the help of special instruments and equipment and specialized technology to carry out business work for the diagnosis and treatment of patients to provide an objective basis. Medical and technical departments of the means of work is mainly a variety of instruments and equipment, the level of work in a large part of the program depends on the advanced program of instruments and equipment and the length of the update cycle, but also depends on the technical level of medical and technical departments and technicians of the professional and technical level of knowledge updating fast and slow. In the rapid development of science and technology today, this feature is particularly prominent.
(4) medical and technical departments have diagnostic and therapeutic instruments and equipment, short update cycle, high requirements. Medical and technical departments of the instrumentation is the material basis of hospital modernization and an important symbol. With the development of modern science and technology, medical equipment is updated more and more quickly, a few years to update a generation or several generations. Each department, each specialty has a variety of different functions of the instruments and equipment, the same specialty, the same function of the instruments and equipment, often different specifications and models, the operation is different. Equipment operation automation, remote control and electronic computerization, constituting the medical and technical departments in different forms. And each instrument and equipment are required to have a specific environment, building and maintenance equipment, the corresponding specialized technical personnel operation and maintenance management.