And so today we write about clinical engineering. The American College of Engineering gives this definition:
A Clinical Engineer is a professional who supports and advances patient care by applying engineering and managerial skills to healthcare technology.
The profession boasts several organizations, some of which may no longer exist (we got these names and links from the beloved California Medical Instrumentation Association: the Alberta Clinical Engineering Society (ACES); the Clinical Engineering Association of South Africa (CEASA) Coastal and Inland KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Branch; the European Alliance of Clinical Engineering (EURACLE); the Fachverband Biomedizinische Technik e.V. (German Clinical Engineering Association FBMT); the French Association of Clinical Engineers (Association Fran?aise des Ing?nieurs Biom?dicaux); the Italian Association on Clinical Engineering – L’Associazione Italiana Ingegneri Clinici (AIIC); the Michigan Society for Clinical Engineering; the New England Society of Clinical Engineering (NESCE); the Southeast Texas Clinical Engineering Society; and perhaps others. And for anyone who is a fan of both journals and clinical engineering, there is the Journal of Clinical Engineering.
Hereafter, maybe we will write more about clinical engineering. And maybe not.