Abstract
Clinical engineering in Canada has a long history. It has benefitted from a single-payer health system, where all clinical engineers work ultimately for the same boss, the Canadian taxpayer. Health care is a provincial responsibility in Canada, and each of the 10 provinces and 3 territories has a slightly different approach to the way health care is organized. There is a growing trend toward regionalization of clinical engineering services within a province, with the number of regions varying from 1 to 5 depending on the size of the province. Most clinical engineering services are organized with a mix of technologists and engineers, with the ratio of technologists to engineers being about 10:1. The Clinical Engineering Standards of Practice for Canada was developed by a committee of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society (CMBES). This standard is being used as the basis of a peer-review process for clinical engineering departments that is organized by CMBES.
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