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Strategic Health Technology Incorporation (Paperback)
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Strategic Health Technology Incorporation (Paperback)
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Biomedical Engineering
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Technology is essential to the delivery of health care but it is
still only a tool that needs to be deployed wisely to ensure
beneficial outcomes at reasonable costs. Among various categories
of health technology, medical equipment has the unique distinction
of requiring both high initial investments and costly maintenance
during its entire useful life. This characteristic does not,
however, imply that medical equipment is more costly than other
categories, provided that it is managed properly. The foundation of
a sound technology management process is the planning and
acquisition of equipment, collectively called technology
incorporation. This lecture presents a rational, strategic process
for technology incorporation based on experience, some successful
and many unsuccessful, accumulated in industrialized and developing
countries over the last three decades. The planning step is focused
on establishing a Technology Incorporation Plan (TIP) using data
collected from an audit of existing technology, evaluating needs,
impacts, costs, and benefits, and consolidating the information
collected for decision making. The acquisition step implements TIP
by selecting equipment based on technical, regulatory, financial,
and supplier considerations, and procuring it using one of the
multiple forms of purchasing or agreements with suppliers. This
incorporation process is generic enough to be used, with suitable
adaptations, for a wide variety of health organizations with
different sizes and acuity levels, ranging from health clinics to
community hospitals to major teaching hospitals and even to entire
health systems. Such a broadly applicable process is possible
because it is based on a conceptual framework composed of in-depth
analysis of the basic principles that govern each stage of
technology lifecycle. Using this incorporation process, successful
TIPs have been created and implemented, thereby contributing to the
improvement of healthcare services and limiting the associated
expenses. Table of Contents: Introduction / Conceptual Framework /
The Incorporation Process / Discussion / Conclusions
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