A Gestão de Tecnologia Médico-Hospitalar como Estratégia da Engenharia Clínica no Atendimento Domiciliar no Brasil.

Home Care is considered as a strategy for dehospitalization and humanization of health care. This modality is increased due to epidemiologist profile changes and to new legislation, which aim specially towards aged people primary care and people with physical deficiency. The necessity to keep Home Care as a hospital complement and the difficulty in adjusting the domestic environment for that practice offers Clinical Engineering an opportunity of integration in new health areas. The objective of this paper is to show this opportunity. A platform for Clinical Engineering and Home Care integration is proposed, and that allows through Medical Technology Management activities to get one adequate use of the Home Care technology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]