The Ministry of Health of Buenos Aires Province has 77 hospitals distributed in its area most of them being equiped with imported medical technology. This equipment had at that time, an average age of 8 years and owing to the great demand, an extremely intense use. Under these conditions, with budget devalued in relation to international prices and with an increasing demand, due to the current economical and social situation, a program including the purchase of medical technology in order to renovate and widen the one already in use was carried out. The selection of the technology was made according to the sanitary policies established for the regional health webs. This program took place between the years 2004 and 2007, with the intervention of Clinical Engineers who elaborated the technical specifications and gave the award, something never done before. The main aim of this piece of work is to demonstrate that with the intervention of Clinical Engineering in the processes of purchasing medical technology, the obtained results are highly satisfactory not only in quality but also as regards investments, that is to say, it is possible to develop an efficient process. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Lencina, M. H. (2008). Estrategia para adquisición de tecnología médica en la provincia de buenos aires en la crisis financiera de 2002. In IFMBE Proceedings (Vol. 18, pp. 847–851). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74471-9_196
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