Clinical engineering in Mexico

Abstract

Abstract Mexico is proudly one of the first countries in the Latin-American and Caribbean region to develop clinical engineering (CE) programs, going back as far as early 1970s, and being recognized as such by their regional peers. Nowadays the CE practice has presence in all sectors that provide health care in Mexico, and has one of the first Ministry of Health’s agency dedicated to advance CE and health technology management (HTM). But there is still much work to be done, like having national policies on HTM and CE practice. In the this chapter the author discusses the HTM problem in Mexico, the work done by biomedical engineers in hospitals, how is the educational ground for CE, the achievements by CE professionals and the challenges ahead.