Technology: life's salvation or costly sin?

Technology assessment will be the methodology of choice; it will provide the information necessary to make tough investment decisions. It will be a vital tool when analyzing healthcare investments. Technology assessment is probably one of the planks in the process of ensuring better outcomes research, which can be applied after having selected and used the technology. Even if you find technology assessment tougher to learn and more complicated than product evaluation, hopefully you'll recognize its inevitability and be on the cutting edge to adopt it. Make your research go beyond a comparison of acquisition cost and usage. Look at technology assessment as a deterrent to the accelerating cost of operating a hospital--as an investment in more cost-effective health care.