BM4006 Health Policy and Equipment Management Syllabus:

BM4006 Health Policy and Equipment Management Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To expose the students for planning and operation of hospitals in a detailed manner which will include all facts of hospital planning activities covering every department that is involved both in clinical care as well as supportive services.
 To introduce the equipment maintenance management skills and how to protect equipment from electromagnetic interferences.

UNIT I HEALTH SYSTEM

Health organization of the country, the state and cities, health financial system, teaching cum research hospitals, General Hospital, PHC reference system, Ambulatory Care.

UNIT II NATIONAL HEALTH POLICY

Need for evaluating a health policy, need for providing primary health care, health education, health insurance, health legislation, inter-sectoral cooperation.

UNIT III EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT

Organizing the maintenance operation, biomedical equipment procurement procedure, proper selection, compatibility, testing and installation, purchase and contract procedure, trained medical staff, on the proper use of the equipment and operating instructions. Maintenance job planning, preventive maintenance, maintenance budgeting, contract maintenance.

UNIT IV LOGISTIC SUPPORT & RELIABILITY

Maintenance equipment and Tools, failure analysis, spare parts, and maintenance materials. Reliability fundamentals.

UNIT V EMI IN HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT

Principles of EMI, computation of EMI, Method of suppressing and isolating the unit from interference.

COURSE OUTCOMES:

On completion of this course the student will be able to:
CO1:Discuss the basics of health organization
CO2: Explain the various national health policies
CO3: Perform equipment installation, service & calibration needs and planning activities at health care centres
CO4: Repair methods for Material handling equipment
CO5: Minimizing equipment failures and increasing patient safety

TOTAL:45 PERIODS

REFERENCES

1. Antony Kelly, `Maintenance Planning & control’ Butterworth, London 1984.
2. Binseng Wang, Medical Equipment Maintenance: Management and Oversight, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2012
3. Hans Pleiff veradammann (ed) `Hospital Engineering in developing countries, GTZ report Eschborn, 1986.
4. Medical Equipment Management, Keith Willson, Keith Ison, Slavik Tabakov CRC Press, 2013
5. R.C.Goyal `Human Resource Management in Hospitals’ Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi, 2000.