Medical Technology & Health Care Costs Medical administrators will need to address

Medical administrators will have a role in managing resources at the hospital level. An analysis of the problem of how to best utilize highly expensive diagnostic and treatment technology will reveal that hospitals could be doing a much better job of making equipment available to a wider population in local communities. Advanced technology is inherently neither good nor bad; rather, its value lies in utilization. Ideally, the wider the population base benefiting from the technology, the better. Methods of accomplishing this goal will be discussed. In addition, we will examine evaluative methods to test the effectiveness of several solutions to the problem of how best to allocate expensive technology.

As Michael D. Reagan points out in his excell

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with regard to pay and work location. Hospitals have grown into technology training centers. In the past, hospitals have trained residents and nurses; now they are taking on the added responsibility of serving as community centers of advanced technology training. As Patrick and Erickson point out in their excellent study of health status in the United States, "the introduction and continued growth of technology have brought crucial problems to medicine. There is need for organizational structures capable of serving as geographic focal points for these emerging technologies as well as distributive mechanisms for allocating the benefits to patients." The ranks of nurses and doctors have been supuplemented with so many new personnel (all of whom now draw a paycheck based on what the market will allow--and there is great demand) that "more than two-thirds of all personnel now employed in health care are in nontraditional allied health or support service positions." To reiterate, one reason for this is the growth in technological innovation in the health care system in the past 30 years. As new types of machinery become available, often new allied health positions are created to specialize in the new area of machine and new tec
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