OED:  "bio'medical a., pertaining or relating to both biology and medicine."

Engineers working in clinical environments are caught between several rocks and hard places: increasing amounts of increasingly complex technological machinery, cost-conscious administrators, survey and certification demands, and then there's patient safety. In effect the job requires balancing three things: finance, technology, and safety or ethics; the career with two names, and three overseers.

bioengineering (bì´o-èn´je-nîr´îng) noun
"The application of engineering principles to the fields of biology and medicine, as in the development of aids or replacements for defective or missing body organs. Also called biomedical engineering." Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company.

"Biomedical engineering is a discipline that advances knowledge in engineering, biology and medicine, and improves human health through cross-disciplinary activities that integrate the engineering sciences with the biomedical sciences and clinical practice." Copyright 2000 The Whitaker Foundation

"A major contributing factor to this unresponsiveness has been the rigid definition of clinical engineering as shown in the article by Barkalow. Clinical engineers were traditionally defined, placed in monolithic structures and were tasked with introvert activities with very little developmental prospects. The profession thus never developed beyond its traditional area of influence and with the major global changes of health and technological development, mentioned above, lost its "central role" and now faces a serious battle for survival. It would be opportune at this stage to paraphrase David Harrington: 'Is the profession dying? No, but it is on the critical list. Will the profession live? It could, if the profession is willing to fight for its life, and become proactive....'
Clinical Engineering Division, International Federation for Medical & Biological Engineering, Chairman's Report 1997 - 2000. http://ifmbe-news.iee.org