Welcome to the first page of Department of Biomedical Engineering , National Taiwan University Hospital. 

Our mission is to service and maintain all medical facilities and equipment at NTUH.

It is our honor to introduce our department to those of you who are interested in biomedical engineering.

1. Department History 
   1. On September 1, 1986, a taskforce was established to initiate the project.
   2. On August 1, 1987, Department of Bio-medical Engineering was officially established. 
   3. On October 24, 1991, Ministry of Education ordered the Department to set up three separate operative sections and each section is led by a section chief.
   4. On August 1, 1997, Professor Po-Qung Chen was appointed to be a part-time director of the Department.
   5. On August 1, 2000, Professor Chan-I Wang assumed the part-time directorship.
   6. On August 1, 2002, Professor Feng-Huei Lin took over the directorship, and Associate Professor Jui-Sheng Sun was also assigned to be a part-time deputy director.
   7. On May 6, 2003, Senior Specialist Chia-Hung Chien and Specialist Hsu Wen-Hsien Hsu were each promoted to the position of the section chief of the first and second section of the Department, respectively.
   8. On June 17, 2003, the department supervisor meeting passed a motion to reorganize the Department into four sections to replace the former three, and they are: (1) Administrative & Information Services, (2) Radiological & Biochemical Services, (3) Diagnostic & Therapeutic Services, and (4) Research & Teaching Services.
   9. On August 1, 2005, Professor Huang Yih-Yu Huang assumed the part-time directorship.
   10. On December 30, 2006, the Department set up 3 positions of Senior Specialists.
        
2. Department Location

​It is located on the underground fourth floor in the Main Building(East Campus) of NTUH.
 

1. Obligation and Responsibility
   1. Providing evaluation and consultation services on the technology and specification aspects before medical instruments and equipment are procured.
   2. Carrying out the inspections of electrical security, specification, and functions of the procured medical instruments and equipment before put to use.
   3. Programming and practicing the maintenance, repairs, and disposal of the procured medical instruments and equipment.
   4. Working on the assessment, signing, and supervision of maintenance and safeguard contracts for precision and urgent medical instruments and equipment.
   5. Training the staff of all user units to operate the medical instruments, equipment and systems, effectively and safely.
   6. Establishing a way to collect and program the needed relevant warning information and recovery notification system for the medical instruments and equipment.
   7. Searching for and introducing the latest medical treatment technology.
   8. Establish a clinical engineering operation standard and guideline to ensure all medical instruments and equipment to observe the ordinance laws and regulations of the government and other concerned parties, and the provisions of the standard rules.
   9. Designing, refitting, and integrating all intramural medical instruments and equipment, and providing necessary technical supports to clinical trials.
   10. Building up an information filing and computerized managing system for the basic data and technical service data.
   11. Carrying out research and development of relevant medical technology and evaluation of its clinical applications.
   12. Taking the responsibility of the task of quality assurance of the operations of the intramural medical instruments and equipment.
   13. Being responsible for the medical engineering related analytical reports on budget formulating, business programming, manpower usage, work productivity, cost control, and performance evaluation.
   14. Conducting information editing and filing for the medical engineering related data management, research reports, and technical reports.
   15. Carrying on other tasks assigned by the superiors.