Modelo de gestión de tecnología biomédica para las instituciones prestadoras de servicio de salud en el Valle del Cauca

Abstract

Biomedical Technology Management has been researched through the years, because the importance of the services its quality and security to an effective cost by means of medical equipments. In Colombia important laws and standards has been development in relation to the regulatory frame of the biomedical technology such as, classification, control of quality, evaluation and acquisition processes, as well as minimal requirements for IPS (Delivering Heath Services Entities) accreditation. However, to the manager of medical technology in the IPS, those processes are confused and difficult to apply, since they not count on standardized procedures or guides nor either do not exist control mechanisms that stimulate their implementation. Therefore, UAO research group in Clinical Engineering has designed a Model of Biomedical Technology Management to the IPS in the Valle del Cauca, which standardizes the processes of acquisition, installation and use of the biomedical technologies in order to guarantee its operation with the maximum of benefits, quality and security to reasonable costs. The present work present the principal activities carried out in the first stage of the project as well as results reached and finally the propose actions to the following stages are outlined too. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.