• Procurement Procedures 

  Unknown author (EWH, 2012)

  Procurement is the process of acquiring goods, supplies and services. It includes Equipment, spare parts & supplies for program activities, Equipment, office furniture & supplies for project offices, Drugs and medicines, ...
• HTM Guide 6: How to Organise HTM 

  Worm, Anna (EWH, 2012)

  How to Manage Finances: How to Manage Vol 6 Lenel et. al., (Ziken International: 2005).
• HTM Guide 3 

  Worm, Anna (EWH, 2012)

  This presentation covers Guide 3: How Procure and Commission: How to Manage Vol 3, Lenel et. al., (Ziken International: 2005) and Guide 6: How to Manage Finances: How to Manage Vol 6 Lenel et. al., (Ziken International: 2005).
• HTM Guide 2: How to plan and budget your Healthcare Technology 

  Worm, Anna (EWH, 2012)

  This presentation accompanies the book: How to Organize: How to Manage Vol 2, Lenel et. al., (Ziken International: 2005).
• HTM Guide 1: How to Organise HTM 

  Worm, Anna (EWH, 2012)

  This presentation accompanies the book: How to Organize: How to Manage Vol 1, Lenel et. al., (Ziken International: 2005).
• Entrepreneurship 

  Worm, Anna (EWH, 2012)

  This is a powerpoint covering the basics of entrepreneurship.
• Management of Maintenance 

  Skeet, Muriel; Fear, David (VSO, 1995)

  The breakdown of a piece of equipment is inconvenient to us and can put our patients’ lives at risk. The result is frustration and stress. Sometimes a breakdown is inevitable or a repair is delayed because a spare part ...
• Managing the Lifecycle of Medical Equipment 

  Unknown author (Tropical Health and Education Trust., 2015)

  This short article provides a brief overview of major concepts in Healthcare Technology Management such as: the equipment lifecycle, planning, budgeting and financing, assessment and selection, logistics, installation and ...
• Identifying Issues and Investigating Incidents Case Study 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  Biomedical technology professionals are often the first people to identify issues with a technology. Sometimes they identify them proactively, during regular inspections, and sometimes they find them retrospectively, when ...
• Human Factors Informed Procurement and Implementation Process 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  The human factors informed procurement and implementation process (HFPIP) is a framework that can be followed to support the human factors informed selection of medical technologies in hospital organizations. This framework ...
• Human Factors Informed Root Cause Analysis 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division., 2015)

  Root Cause Analysis (RCA) is a retrospective incident investigation framework, initially developed as a quality management engineering tool, that is now widely used in many industries to support the improved safety of ...
• Human Factors Informed Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al 

  Unknown author (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division., 2015)

  Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an engineering method for proactively assessing vulnerabilities in a system before the risks cause harm. It was first used in the late 1940’s by the US Armed Forces to analyze ...
• Usability Testing 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  When a technology or system change is evaluated in isolation, the effect of external factors like the environment of use, interfacing technologies and equipment, and team dynamics of multiple care providers are unknown. ...
• Heuristic analysis 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  When a technology is poorly designed, it can lead people to make mistakes while interacting with it. In healthcare, this can be especially serious given the complexity of technology and what we need it to do. Many technologies ...
• Task Analysis 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  Once data have been collected in the field, you will need a way to make sense of the data, and to share it in a meaningful way with others. Completing a task analysis can be extremely helpful in accomplishing both of these ...
• Interviews, Focus Groups, and Surveys 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  Data collection through observation yields rich information about how people do things, but this insight only provides part of the story. It is also important to understand why a system has been set up, or things are being ...
• Observation for HTM 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  When people with similar training and experience are presented with a particular situation, it is not uncommon to find that they take fairly different approaches to managing the situation. This is not necessarily because ...
• The Need for Human Factors in Health Technology Management 

  Andrea Cassano-Piché, et. al (HumanEra @ UHN & IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, 2015)

  All people, no matter how careful, have the potential to make mistakes. Healthcare professionals enter the field out of a desire to help others, but because all humans have certain known strengths and limitations, people ...
• How to Manage the Finances of Your Healthcare Technology Management Teams 

  Unknown author (Ziken International, 2018)

  The operational budget refers to the planned engineering activities (operations) that the HTM Team carries out for its customers. In other words it allocates funds against the activities in the operational plan (Section ...
• How to Organize the Maintenance of Your Healthcare Technology 

  Unknown author (Ziken International, 2018)

  The system introduced in this Guide provides a solid approach to managing maintenance. However, we recognize that there are other ways of organizing the maintenance services which may be more appropriate for your administrative ...

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