II. Uluslararası Sağlıkta Performans ve Kalite Kongresi Bildiriler

çalışanların güvenliğini tehlikeye atabilecek risklerin olduğu bunlara bağlı olarak hizmet üretiminde
verimliliğin sağlanamadığı, söylenebilir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Sağlık Teknolojisi, Teknolojik Risk, Yönetim
TECHNOLOGICAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN THE HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATIONS IN TECHNOLOGICAL RISK
MANAGEMENT IN THE HOSPITALS SUBJECT TO MINISTRY OF HEALTH
Abstract
It is benefitted from health technology for the purpose of using non-invasive methods in the diagnosis
of diseases and minimizing diagnosis and treatment periods of the diseases in the production of health
services. Health technology, from which is benefitted intensively in the hospitals recently, is all of the
technological adaptations, enabling the use of health equipments such as medical device, instrument
and machine, which has advanced technology.
There is a risk of occurrence of several dangers for patients and employees during benefitting from
the health technology in the hospitals. Some of the technological danger risks are incorrect information,
which is provided by technological system, availability of dangers subject to energy source during
use of technology, occurrence of bodily harms on the patient and user personnel due to incorrect
use of technology. Furthermore, serious problems can also occur in the patient’s care, in case there
is no technology in the hospital or it breaks down. Activities for enabling to solve and/or to prevent
risks subject to health technology in the hospitals in a short period constitute the most important part
of technological risk management studies of the managers. Activity areas of technological risk management
are appropriate technology selection, preventive maintenance, repair, calibration, training of
user personnel and energy source.
This study aims at researching technological risk management applications under the scope of health
technology management in the hospitals subject to Ministry of Health and assessment of efficiency of
these applications in respect to safety of patient and personnel and development of suggestions for an
effective technological risk management. Research method of the study is composed of literature scanning,
observations and discussions. Literature scanning means books related to subject, periodicals,
articles, reports, relevant legislations (laws, regulations, circulars, resolutions) and reliable internet
resources. Survey questions have been prepared in the study in order to research the applications in
the hospitals subject to Ministry of Health. However, it has been considered that answers, to be given
to the survey questions, can not be objective, therefore survey application and research have not been
included into the study.
Findings, which are obtained as a result of study, can be listed shortly as follows: not purchasing equipment,
which shall meet real requirement in the health technology applications; inability of providing
continuity of calibration activities of the equipments; availability of risks, which can be arisen from
user personnel; availability of risks related to energy resource; insufficiency of preventive maintenance
and repair activities of the equipments; the fact that personnel, who are commissioned in the technical
service unit of the hospitals, do not have sufficient information related to maintenance and repair
of health equipments; hospital personnel has not comprehended the importance of preventive main-
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