Healthcare Engineering Subjects

HEALTHCARE ENGINEERING SUBJECTS

Healthcare Engineering is an immensely broad and rapidly advancing field. The table below is based on Healthcare Engineering Defined: a White Paper (Chyu et al., 2015), and updated by new topics added to individual subjects.

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(I) Engineering for Healthcare

Intervention (see description)

A. Fundamentals

1. Biomechanics

Clinical Biomechanics

Occupational Biomechanics

Biomechanics of Aging

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics

Nano-biomechanics

2. Biomaterials

Implants

Tissue Engineering

Drug Delivery

3. Biomedical Instruments

Monitoring

Diagnosis

Clinical laboratory

4. Medical Devices

Functions:

Surgery

Treatment

Diagnosis

Prevention

Specialties:

Anesthesiology

Cardiovascular

Clinical Chemistry

Dental

Ear, Nose and Throat

Gastroenterology and Urology

General and Plastic Surgery

General Hospital and Personal

Use

Hematology

Immunology

Microbiology

Neurology

Obstetrical and Gynecological

Ophthalmic

Orthopedic

Pathology

Physical Medicine

Radiology

Toxicology

5. Engineering for Surgery

Minimally Invasive Surgery

Computer-Assisted (Robotic) Surgery

Image-Guided Surgery

6. Medical Imaging

7. Organ Transplantation

8. Artificial Organs

Prostheses

3D Printing

Bionics

Regenerative Medicine

Tissue Engineering

9. Drug Delivery

Site-Specific Drug

Receptor Targeting Drug

Nanomedicine

Implantable Drug

Electronic Pill

10. Genetic Engineering

11. Engineering for Diagnosis/Detection

Computer-Aided Diagnosis

12. Health Informatics, Information

Engineering & Decision Support

13. Disinfection Engineering

B. Engineering for Disease Prevention,

Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management

1. Cardiovascular Disease

2. Cancer

3. Alzheimer's Disease

4. Diabetes

5. Respiratory Disease

6. Obesity

7. Degenerative Diseases

8. Osteoporosis

9. Addiction

10. Others

C. Engineering for Patient Care

1. Patient Safety

2. Critical Care

3. Neonatal Care

4. Home Healthcare

5. Elderly Care

6. Patient Monitoring

7. Health Disparities

8. Disaster Management

D. Engineering for Medical Specialties

1. Allergy and Immunology

2. Anesthesiology

3. Cardiology

4. Critical Care Medicine

5. Emergency Medicine

6. Endocrinology

7. Gastroenterology

8. General Surgery

9. Geriatrics

10. Infectious Disease

11. Neurology

12. Neurosurgery

13. Nuclear Medicine

14. Occupational Medicine

15. Oncology

16. Ophthalmology

17. Orthopedics

18. Pathology

19. Pediatrics

20. Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

21. Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic

Surgery

22. Public Health

23. Pulmonology

24. Radiology

25. Radiotherapy

26. Rheumatology

27. Sports Medicine

28. Urology

29. Vascular Medicine

30. Others

E. Engineering for Dental Specialties

1. Endodontics

2. Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology,

Radiology, and Surgery

3. Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics

4. Periodontics

5. Prosthodontics

6. Others

F. Engineering for Allied Health Specialties

1. Audiology

2. Clinical Laboratory Science

3. Environmental Health

4. Occupational Therapy

5. Orthotics and Prosthetics

6. Physical Therapy

7. Rehabilitation

8. Respiratory Therapy

9. Speech Therapy

10. Others

G. Engineering for Nursing - including nursing in

all related areas, particularly (I)B, C, D, E,

(II)A, and B.

H. Engineering for Pharmacy

1. Pharmaceutical Design & Development

2. Bio-/Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

3. Pharmaceutical Devices

4. Pharmaceutical Testing

5. Pharmaceutical Information Systems

6. Clinical Science

7. Regulatory Compliance

(II) Engineering for Healthcare Systems

(see description)

A. Healthcare System Management,

Improvement & Reform

1. Quality, Cost, Efficiency, Effectiveness

2. Operations Research & Systems

Engineering

3. Lean, Six Sigma, Total Quality

Management

4. Human Factors

5. High Reliability Organization

6. Resilience Engineering

7. Rural Health

B. Healthcare Information Systems

1. Electronic Health Record

2. E-Health

3. M-Health

4. Telemedicine

5. Wireless Technology

6. Data Mining & Big Data

7. Information Security

C. Healthcare Facilities

1. Healthcare Infrastructure

2. Healthcare Energy Systems

3. Healthcare Sustainability & Green Design

4. Environmental Health and Safety

D. Healthcare Policy

(III) Others

A. Healthcare Engineering Education & Training

1. Collegiate Education

2. Continued Education

B. Future of Healthcare

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