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H L Lewis

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Who makes decisions about new technology in hospitals?

Three top managers from different kinds of hospitals explain how decisions to buy expensive new technology are made in their institutions. Financial feasibility, competition with other hospitals, and the advantages of new equipment to patients and members of the medical staff are all considerations administrators must keep in mind when buying new equipment.

Costs and Cost Analysis

Nurse practitioners in prevention and health education.

The Where? How? Who will pay? and Who will provide? of preventive medicine and health education can be answered. And a promising answer is the family nurse practitioner, who may be able to handle 60 to 80 percent of routine tasks normally done by physicians and to provide health education as a part of routine care.

California

Planning for "the technology factor".

Modern medical care technology impacts on decision making in the industry as never before. Whether this impact is more positive than negative is debatable; but the dialogue is of vital interest to hospitals, as technology is the central issue in the current furor over cost control.

Cardiovascular Diseases