Say a Hospital gets a high tech piece of equipment that takes special and expensive training. Say this machine does something very complex like measure the gait with special hardware and a intensive gait analysis software program. The person they hire to operate the machine, take care of its hardware and maintain it’s software would be called what? What sort of degree would it require? Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering? Computer / Electrical Engineering?
This is the machine I am thinking of: http://www.vicon.com/applications/gait_analysis.html
If the hardware and software are used as they are out of the box, I’d say the guy you’re describing is a technician. If you’re having it customized, probably systems engineer.
Generically, I’d expect the person running it to be a medical technician, and some sort of support engineer or technician (probably someone from IT) would take care of it. I wouldn’t expect a facility that can afford this device would expect the same person to do both tasks, although the operator probably would eventually figure out how to maintain it.
Anything much more involved than installing a software patch might be handled by the manufacturer’s own engineers - whether they ship out a replacement part and tell you how to install it, or whether they come to you probably depends on what you want to pay for support.