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The public health system in Brazil must provide the population, comprehensive care and with wide availability of resources. However, the actual conditions demonstrate that available resources are not sufficient to give full attention to required health. With regard to medical devices, it is observed that its acquisition is often done without adhesion to technical criteria aiming to support the technology throughout its life cycle. The project management processes enables the clinical engineer to join the assessment team of technology to be acquired proactively analyzing the acquisition of medical equipment throughout its life cycle. The research presented involved the search for articles that deal with the project management in state of the art applied to the evaluation of medical devices focused on the incorporation of these technologies in the health care environment, addressing an adapted model of the project management processes proposed by the Project Management Institute to the activities of clinical engineer.
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Alves, C.S., Gomes, M.M.F., Brasil, L.M. (2015). Project Management for Clinical Engineering - Considerations in the evaluation and acquisition of medical equipment for health services in Brazil. In: Jaffray, D. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, June 7-12, 2015, Toronto, Canada. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 51. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19387-8_363
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