Identifying effective factors in the level of technological capabilities of medical equipment in the country by using fuzzy Delphi technique

The production of medical equipment, while playing a key role in meeting the needs of the health system, has significant economic and technological potential for growth and development.The main purpose of this research is to identify the effective factors in the level of technology capabilities of medical equipment in the country. The present research has been conducted in terms of applied purpose and in terms of exploratory implementation, In the style of a library, documentary and survey between 15 persons, it by internal specialists and experts in the field of medical equipment of the country, after reviewing the research literature, 22 effective indicators were extracted by experts to evaluate the level of technology capabilities of the country's medical equipment.Then fuzzy Delphi method was used to identify and select decision variables that 5 indicators of creativity and innovation, technology development, engineering, manufacturing and production and competitiveness to assess the level of medical equipment technology capabilities of the country were identified, respectively. The results of this study show that creativity and innovation and technology development are the most important factors in the level of technology capabilities of medical equipment in the country.
Then the fuzzy Delphi method was used to identify and select decision variables. The results show that 5 factors of creativity and innovation, technology development, design and engineering, manufacturing and competitiveness to evaluate the level of capabilities of medical equipment technology, as the most important factors, were identified at the level of medical equipment technology capabilities.