title: Who makes decisions about new technology in hospitals?
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D004865:Equipment and Supplies, Hospital / Q000191:economics; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000191:economics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital; D011682:Purchasing, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013781:Texas