Healthcare strategic planning using technology assessment

The beginning of the healthcare technology cycle is the assessment of the clinical needs and planning of technological resources. These directly impact care services and therefore patients. This work is one of the most evident of the need for clinical engineers, because it requires knowledge of biomedical technology and understanding clinical procedures and physiological consequences to weigh the relevance. Typically, the list of needs is usually long with a lot of requirements, and not possible to have all, so it is necessary to prioritize according to institutional strategic plans, annual operating plans, or particular goals identified. Also, it requires evaluating the void created by recently obsolete technology which requires replacement.