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Since the decade of the sixties, the health care institutions in Venezuelans have suffered a marked and continuous deterioration in their operation, especially regarding their infrastructure and equipment. This is due in part to the lack of an adequate technological management system applied to the health technologies. The objective of this work is to discuss the concept of technological management applied to the field of the health technologies, and later to describe the organizational structure proposed by the Simon Bolívar University for the installation of Clinical Engineering Departments in Venezuelan hospitals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper proposes a methodology resulting from several studies based in medical technology management and Health Public Politics for the Health Ministry and Social Developments by the Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela. This research is based on the premise of an extensive analysis and a Quality Control of Health Institutions studying their politics, technology and procedures looking for an improvement in all different areas of Health Institutions. In the visits made to different Public Hospitals, several problems were detected at infrastructure, at the medical industry facilities and in their medical equipment. Therefore, we have elaborated a schematic methodology that helps to promote the development of efficient medical procedures and the improvement of the deficient areas of the Institutions. Public Health Institutions problems should be focused in a multifactorial perspective over all areas of the Institutions but it's known that this is an slow and complex process construction. Recommendations aimed to improve the basic institutional procedures, such as planning, budgeting, information and evaluation have been made. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]