Clinical technologists officially registered healthcare professionals

A milestone for the Clinical Technologist: the Dutch Association for Technical Medicine (NVvTG) announced that from July 1st this medtech healthcare professional is officially BIG registered. This makes Clinical Technologists officially registered healthcare professionals, allowed to carry out reserved procedures independently. Clinical technologists will be given first-line status and therefore have the authorization to register and declare healthcare activities.

Since 2014, the bachelor program in Clinical Technology has been given in a Medical Delta context by TU Delft, the Leiden University Medical Center and the Erasmus Medical Center. Program directors are the recently appointed Medical Delta professor Jaap Harlaar and Pleun Hermsen.

New health care provider

The Clinical Technologist is a new type of healthcare provider who performs technical medical procedures in direct patient care, the NVvTG writes in a press release. "The Clinical Technologist is able to use technology optimally and safely for the diagnosis and treatment of individual patients, and to develop new forms of diagnostics and treatment. He is therefore the healthcare professional par excellence who combines clinical insight and medical skills with expertise in the possibilities and limitations of technology."

"The BIG registration opens doors. This is a necessary condition and an important recognition of the profession," said Jaap Harlaar and Pleun Hermsen, program directors of the Clinical Technology bachelor program.

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