ABSTRACT
Clinical engineering is an applied engineering theory and technology that combines medical and engineering methods to study and solve problems related to technical management and technical support of medical equipment, medical consumables, medical appliances, application software and in vitro reagents in hospitals. Clinical engineering researches involve the integration of clinical medical device applications with medical technology. The deepening of China's medical and health system reform has brought new development opportunities to the clinical engineering discipline, and the development of this discipline has been accelerating. However, as an emerging discipline, clinical engineering still has problems such as insufficient attention, backward ideas, and lack of directions. In this paper, the connotation of clinical engineering was explained, and the development status of clinical engineering and the main problems were analyzed. The functions of clinical engineering departments and the professional positioning of clinical engineers were also analyzed. The transformation mode and development direction of clinical engineering disciplines and clinical engineers were proposed. This paper can provide the basis for the construction of a new clinical engineering work system.