title: Medical technologies can carry big payoff, big costs. How to assess needs and build strategies.
abstract: New diagnostic and clinical intervention technologies are transforming U.S. health care delivery, but these advances in patient care come with a big payoff and big costs--and a strong sense of urgency. This special editorial package on capital financing looks at: The CFO's role in determining the business impact and capital financing. What Wall Street needs now in terms of credit profiles. The balance of cost and care concerns in new technology decisions.
authors.forename: Dave
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carpenter
mesh_terms: D020811:Biomedical Technology / Q000191:economics* / Q000639:trends; D002202:Capital Financing; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital; D006752:Hospital Planning / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007449:Investments / Q000191:economics; D024382:Professional Role; D012371:Robotics / Q000191:economics; D013523:Surgical Equipment / Q000191:economics; D014481:United States