Overview for special issue: global issues in clinical engineering

Excerpt

There is copious satisfaction in serving as Co-Editor of a Special Issue especially as it focuses on international Clinical Engineering subjects. Over the past few years, with Ernesto Iadanza and Luis Kun, we worked together on identification of subjects that clinical engineers around the world face and we assembled collection of manuscripts that explore them representing the four corners of the world. A world that consumes and dependent upon healthcare services literally everywhere from the Antarctica to the Everest as well as in outer space. The development and provision of these healthcare services would have been impossible without the provision of safe and reliable technology. Healthcare services and technology are in a dependent relationship that is at all time high with every indicator suggesting further future increase of this trend. It is, therefore, important to recognize the need for methodology to manage the whole life cycle of the technology in healthcare and the critical role of clinical engineers in delivering the unique expertise to properly deploy and manage it. …