Avaliação econômica da implantação de um serviço de engenharia clínica no Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia

Abstract

The Biomedical Engineering, through its subspecialties, such as the Clinical Engineering and Hospital Engineering was incorporated permanently into the lives of health institutions, as with the advancement of technology and the definitive inclusion of medical equipment as a means of diagnosis and therapy, has become essential to these organizations. The activities developed by the Clinical Engineering in healthcare facilities are based on engineering knowledge and the manage applied to health technologies. In this context, this research aimed to study and report the impact of the application of management techniques in Clinical Engineering at the UFU Clinical Hospital, a large university hospital and reference for high complexity. This is a case studied, a quantitative, considering an economic and quality evaluation, which was used the documental research as technical procedure. It was analyzed data in reports and administrative documents from the hospital at the period 2001 to 2010, related to human resources, service indicators, quality indicators, parts costs and contracts. Among the findings, the highlight was an approximately 20% reduction in corrective maintenance at the moment of implementation of preventive maintenance and the stabilizing of corrective despite the increase of the technological park of the institution over the 10 years studied. The preventive maintenance reached its highest rate in 2007 with 33% of all maintenance, having a 27% reduction in 2010. In the overall amount of spending on contracts, there was a reduction of about 2/3 in the study period. The savings generated by the Clinical Engineering management for the institution was approximately R$ 2million in 2010, and the cumulative savings over the period 2001 to 2010 was R$ 7.6million. It was concluded therefore that the management of clinical engineering in that institution, enabled a reduction in hospital costs and promote increased of the medical equipment availability and quality assurance and reliability of services provided.