Strategic Planning for Emerging Healthcare Technologies

The evolution of healthcare technology is rapidly accelerating on a number of fronts. 

Healthcare will increasingly be delivered outside traditional venues (e.g., "bricks and mortar" hospitals,  clinics, and physician offices).  Providers must also prepare to deliver healthcare in non-traditional venues such as the patient’s home, assisted living facilities, workplaces, schools, malls and other public areas.  This requires adoption and support of new medical technologies as well as the systems and infrastructure to support these technologies.

As an increasingly wide array of new technologies becomes available, they also have the potential to positively impact healthcare delivery by improving quality, safety and availability while reducing costs. 

Providers can only realize these positive effects through careful planning, adoption and integration of appropriate technologies into the healthcare delivery process.  Existing (i.e., legacy) and new technologies must be integrated. 

Strategic Health Care Technology Associates recognizes the need for integration, understands the implications, and possesses the skills necessary to successfully contribute to your strategic planning and integration processes.  Our Associates can:

	Evaluate the technical strengths & limitations of contemplated technologies in the context of your intended applications
	Apply our knowledge of the environment where the devices or systems are to be used to the appropriate selection and configuration of devices and systems
	Develop plans for the acquisition, installation, integration with other systems, training, and on-going service
	Prepare total cost of ownership (TCO), cost-benefit and life-cycle cost analyses

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