PACS/IMAC technology assessment

Technology assessment.

Technology assessment.

As the biotechnology revolution broadens, many expensive new products will come before P&T committee members across the country. I believe that there is much we can learn from the process of technology assessment that is relevant to our analysis of these new products. To learn more about critical success factors in this process, I recommend taking a look at the recent work from the University H...

Health technology assessment: Off-site sterilization

Background: Every year millions of dollars are expended to equip and maintain the hospital sterilization centers, and our country is not an exception of this matter. According to this, it is important to use more effective technologies and methods in health system in order to reach more effectiveness and saving in costs. This study was conducted with the aim of evaluating the technology of regi...

A Note on Technology Forecasting & Technology Assessment

The seriesconstitute'ideas in progress,' after the notion described byI.J. Good in 'The Scientist Speculates.' Good also describes ideas about ideas as 'partly baked ideas' believing that " ... it is often better to be stimulating and wrong than boring and right. " While the p apers do not take this tenet as an excuse for licence at the expense of rigour, they are exploratory and the ideas may ...

Managed care: technology assessment and technology control.

The control of health care costs continues to be the primary goal of managed care. Double digit inflation in the health care sector continues to be problematic; although society as a whole has not declared what fraction of economic productivity is properly applied to health care. No student of the subject can help but be impressed by the circumstantial evidence that suggests that society is beg...