title: New technologies for your hospital to consider. A strategic planning and capital budgeting checklist.
abstract: This report discusses important new technologies to which hospital CEOs, planners, and clinicians should devote close attention as they plan their capital acquisitions for 1988. Technologies of great current interest, such as magnetic resonance imaging and extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy, are reviewed thoroughly; more than 30 other technologies are reviewed somewhat more briefly.
mesh_terms: D002201:Capital Expenditures; D004467:Economics; D006287:Health Planning Guidelines; D006761:Hospitals; D010934:Planning Techniques; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States