Clinical Engineering

The evolution of clinical engineering: history and the role of technology in health care
Clinical engineering in growing markets: the china case study
Clinical engineering in developing countries
Clinical engineering for consolidated markets: Case study of Europe
Hospital technology management
Management of clinical complex systems
Decision support systems in healthcare
Health technology assessment
Quality and risk management for hospital systems
Management of new technologies: sw and integrated systems
Human factor engineering for medical devices
Clinical engineering for disaster preparedness
Certification of clinical engineers
Careers and Education of clinical engineers

Dr Roberto Miniati received his M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering in 2007 at the School of Engineering, University of Florence (Italy), and Ph.D. in 2012 within the international program on Risk Mitigation at the University of Florence (Italy) and TU Braunschweig (Germany). He has published over 100 scientific papers in refereed journals, international conference proceedings and book chapters.

His main research fields include Healthcare Engineering, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) and Risk Management, Usability Engineering, Hospital Lean Manufacturing and Disaster Risk Reduction with focus in Health Emergency Planning and Vulnerability Assessment Methods. Ernesto Iadanza, BME, CE, M. Sc., Ph.D., Adjunct Professor in Clinical Engineering and Research Fellow at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence. He is currently a member of the IFMBE Administrative Council, chairman of the International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering/Health Technology Assessment Division Board (IFMBE/HTAD), Immediate Past Chairman of the Clinical Engineering Division Board (IFMBE/CED. He is also IEEE (and IEEE-EMBS) Senior Member and received the IBM Faculty Award in 2013 and the IFMBE/CED Teamwork Award in 2019.
Associate Editor of "Health & Technology” and of "Future Internet”, Section editor of the International Journal of Clinical Engineering and Healthcare Technology Assessment (CEHTA), Member of the Editorial Board of China Medical Devices Journal and of the Journal of Healthcare Engineering. Guest editor for the journal Health and Technology (Special issue: "Global issues in Clinical Engineering”). Co-chair, member of the scientific committee, track chair and session chairman of many national and international scientific conferences in Biomedical Engineering, Clinical Engineering and HTA.
Dr. Iadanza is the organiser of postgraduate master courses in Clinical Engineering, Healthcare Engineering and HTA at the University of