Biomedical Engineering

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Biomedical Engineering

• In
• Ireland
• Mr. Ger Flynn
• Head of Biomedical Engineering
• Cork University Hospital

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HSE Structure

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HSE Structure

• Countrywide there are 50 acute hospitals
• These Hospitals are either HSE
• or
• HSE funded Voluntary Hospitals
• 82 of these hospitals have
• Biomedical/ Clinical Engineering depts

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Historically Biomedical Engineering has been
divided into two types of structures

• Biomedical Engineering Depts
• Combined Medical Physics Clinical Engineering
  Depts
• Located in a wide variety of
  Hospitals
• Single speciality hospitals e.g. Mat
  Hospitals
• To
• Medium Large Acute multi-speciality
  Hospitals.

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• Establish 1992
• Voluntary Association
• Membership open to
• individuals employed in both
• the public and
• private sectors
• whose principal function is to provide a
  Biomedical/Clinical Engineering service

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BEAI LINKS

• National
• Irish Medicine Board (IMB) equivalent to MHRA
  (UK)
• Engineers Ireland (EI) Biomedical Eng. Division
• Irish Medical Surgical Trade Association (IMSTA)
• Electro Technical Council Ireland (ETCI)
• Technical Committee10 (TC10)
• International
• International Federation of Medical Biological
  Engineering (IFMBE)
• (BEAI is the Irish representative body)

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BEAI ACTIVITIES

• Website
• www.beai.org
• Publications
• Spectrum Journal (currently 3 yearly)
• Information Sharing Networking
• Annual Scientific Meeting
• Educational Meetings
• International Meetings

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BEAI A ims

• To provide training, workshops and seminars on
  relevant Medical Device Technologies and
  management systems
• To advance the science, technology, ethics and
  art of Biomedical/Clinical Engineering through
  association, education, training, publications
  and other materials.
• To facilitate cooperation and understanding
  amongst Biomedical/Clinical Engineering personnel
  and other healthcare professionals
• To promote the education, development and
  diversity of the next generation of
  Biomedical/Clinical Engineers

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BEAI Aims

• To increase the recognition by the government,
  the health service providers, the media, the
  public and all stake holders of
  Biomedical/Clinical Engineering as a critical
  discipline in health care
• To enhance interactions between industry and
  clinical medicine
• To provide opportunities for sharing information
• To foster the translation of biomedical
  engineering technology to clinical applications
• To encourage and promote professional development
  

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ULTIMATE Aim

• Advancement of Patient Care
• Networking with Industry Academia
• Knowledge enhancement
• Safer products
• More user friendly products
• More reliable products
• Utilising advanced technologies
• (without over engineering end product)

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CASE STUDY Biomedical Engineering
Department Cork University Hospital

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Cork University Hospital 1993
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Cork University Hospital in 2008
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Cork University Hospital

• Biomedical
• Engineering Department

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Biomedical Engineering Department

• Established in March 1993
• Initial function was the service and repair of
  electro-medical devices in the ITUs and
  Theatres.
• From 1993 the role of the dept. has expanded in
  terms of scope, knowledge, personnel and
  geographic area.

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Evolution of its Functions

• Develops its service in line with the Hospitals
  Service Plan
• Medical Technology Tendering Process
• Communication through mobile phones, Email
  internet
• More IT driven now
• (DICOM ) Modality Image management
• Anaesthetic Record Networks
• Clinical information system within ICUs
• Laboratory QC surveillance networks
• Locator Telemetry system

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BME

• BME is part of a HealthCare Professional Team
  provides expertise in the
• Identification
• Being aware of latest technology, generating
  Technical Specifications.
• Acquisition
• Tendering, evaluations and Commissioning.
• Support
• On going Technical, Clinical, Application
  training and Management of medical device
  technologies.

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Mission Statement

• The Biomedical Engineering Department is
  committed to providing Technical, Clinical
  Engineering and Managerial expertise, in line
  with best practices, in the identification,
  acquisition, and support of safe, effective, and
  economical technology as part of a healthcare
  professional team, in the provision, delivery and
  advancement of patient care in a quality
  healthcare system.

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BIOMEDICAL SPECIALISED AREAS

• Maternity
• ICUs and Theatres
• Cardiology division
• Renal division
• Validation and Decontamination
• Laboratories
• X-Ray
• Equipment library
• PCCC

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Personal Development Planning (PDP)

• PDP is a continuous development process that
  enables people to make the best use of their
  skills and helps advance both the individuals
  plans and the strategic goals of the HSE
• Each year the department members log on to the
  HSE PDP website and updates their PDP
• Part of PDP is CPD

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Importance of CPD

• Retention of experienced personnel
• Maintains motivation
• Provides a structured format to update skills,
  disseminate knowledge and experience within our
  department.
• Encourage links with Teaching Institutions and
  Professional Bodies.
• Expand and develop our role in the provision,
  delivery and advancement of patient care in a
  quality healthcare system.

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Culture of Excellence

• Continuous up-skilling of our Engineers on new
  medical device technologies
• Management, health safety and physiology
  training.
• Inter-department information presentations.
• Evolution of group collectively
• Embarked on the CPD Accreditation process.

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Culture of Excellence Acknowledgments

• CPD Three year accreditation granted in 2007
• CPD Company Of Year Winner 2007 (granted by EI)
• Better Place To Work Award HSE South 2007

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Team vision and values

• Our department mission statement
• Safety is number one for all our staff and
  patients
• Respect for each other and other professions
• Involvement in our national organisation
• Association with Third level institutions
  Research
• Improve Efficiencies (e.g. MEL, in-house
  validations)
• Integrity of work done
• Pride in team achievements

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Interaction with Third Level Institutions

• Biomedical engineers attend Physiology classes
  each week during the academic year in the School
  of Nursing University College Cork (UCC).
• Has been involved with Cork Institute of
  Technology (CIT) for the last 7 years providing
  medical device lectures and project support for
  the Level 6, Level 7 and Level 8 programs
• University Student Projects have won national
  prizes over the last 5 years
• Involved with the Biomedical Engineering student
  placement program.
• Provide in-house lectures to the Anaesthetic Dept
  induction programme Bi-annually.

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Biomedical Engineering Involvement in Research
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MEDIC

• Medical Engineering Design and Innovation Centre
  (MEDIC)
• Granted 1.2M by Enterprise Ireland 2008
• Its purpose is to bring a select number of
  product concepts to pre-commercialisation each
  year.
• The centre brings together the medical community,
  entrepreneurs, engineers, product developers and
  manufacturers.

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MEDIC

• It develops solutions to real clinical problems.
• It works with its existing industry partners
• It identifies other potential commercial partners
  for products at the early stage of development
• With the result that it can self finance through
  selling or licensing these products to commercial
  entities.

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NEMBUS

• Networked Embedded Systems
• Granted 12.5M to develop this research centre
• The Biomedical Engineering Dept are currently
  involved in NEMBUS through our submission of two
  research projects

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The Future for Biomedical Engineering

• Research Development in Medical Device
  innovation in cooperation with Universities,
  Technical Institutes and our Hospitals
• Enhance our involvement in HTA investigating new
  emerging technologies and assessing existing
  technologies
• Enhancing our role in clinical incident
  investigations involving medical devices to
  reduce risks to our patients.

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Thank you for your Attention