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Information systems used in clinical engineering structures can be considered usual nowadays. The use of these software tools is not just justified by the convenience in executing daily tasks and to manage routine operations, but also by the advantages in creating indexes to decision making. New researches show that investments in computerized managing systems in Medical Hospital Technology - MHT represent a market of approximately $ 100 million annually, of what 35% of investments are done by users who are acquiring these systems for the first time, and 65% for updating and replacing their systems of technology managing. This work show a software computing tool developed to create indexes that can help in decision making in replacing and incorporation of new technologies to the health area, based on the concept of technology life cycle. This tool is part of an information system to the Managing of Medical Hospital Technology - MMHT and applied in the public health system of Santa Catarina, together with the Clinical Engineering structures. The use of this developed software tool is targeted to the management of technologies in the health area and helps the medical entities to do a forecast of needs in replacing the HMT.
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Santos, F., Garcia, R. (2009). Supporting Decision Making Tool within the Process of Replacement and Incorporation of New Technologies to the Health Area. In: Dössel, O., Schlegel, W.C. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 25/7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03885-3_126
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