Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Request to
solve activity
limitations
Request to solve
environmental
restrictions
Contact
User seeking solution
12
Clinical measures, functional
analysis, and psycho-socio-
environmental evaluations
User data collection
Providing history
(medical, rehabilitation,
support use) and
psycho-socio-
environmental data
1
Multidisciplinary
team meeting
for:
- user data valuation
and- setting design
Data elaboration
2
NOT
3
User subjective
evaluation of
technological aids
2
User checking solution
Setting set-up
3
Matching process:
Environmental
assessment
process (
see
the Usability
and
Accessibility
evaluation
diagram
)
- assistive solution
proposal
- assistive solution
user-trial
- assistive solution
outcome
Te chnological
aid selection
User
evaluation of
assistive
solution
Temporary
or
permanent
EXIT
4
5
NOT
NOT
Environmental
evaluations
Assistive solution
Multidisciplinary
team evaluation
NOT
Assistive solution obtained:
public health system or
public/private insurance
2
3
User
agreement
User living solution
EXIT
NOT
NOT
Short/Long-term use
-Effectiveness
-Eciency
-Usability
-Personal, emotional,
social, comfort with use
-Subjective well-being
-Benefit
Assistive Solution Provision
Personal well-being, user
satisfaction, and benefit
from use
User Support
Follow up
Figure i.1
Flow chart of Assistive Technology Assessment (ATA) process in a Centre for technical aid: The ATA process
can be read both from the perspective of the user/client or from the perspective of the Centre for Technical
Aid. In the central column are indicated the ATA components. Numbered button signs refer to the chapter in
Section I. Their position in the flow chart show an ideal matching with the ATA process.
Health condition
(disorder or disease)
Body function
and structures
Medical
diagnoses*
Activities
Participation
Support &
follow up***
User driven
process**
Assistive solution
Environmental
factors
Personal
factors
* �e physician, the psychologist, the cognitive therapist, the optometrist, the audiologist,
the pediatric specialist, the geriatrician
** �e psychotechnologist, the occupational therapist, the architect, the engineer
*** �e therapist, the special educator, the occupational therapist, the psychologist, the
consumer support, speech language pathologist, the physiotherapist
Figure 1.1
Assistive technology assessment under the lens of the ICF biopsychosocial model.
