ECRI Lists Top 10 Medical Technologies for Hospital ExecutivesECRI Lists Top 10 Medical Technologies for Hospital Executives

May 1, 2009

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ECRI Institute (www.ecri.org), an independent nonprofit that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, has released a top 10 list of health technologies that hospital executives should have on their radar. According to the institute, the list takes into account the convergence of critical patient safety, economic, and regulatory pressures currently facing hospital healthcare executives.
The list includes technologies and technology-related issues across a variety of clinical and operational areas, including health IT, cardiovascular surgery, oncologic radiation, procurement, infection control, and imaging and radiology services.
The report contains easy-to-read overviews and the institute's perspectives on the technologies and the processes. The new executive report is intended to help guide healthcare leaders in planning for capital expenditures.
The top 10 technologies are as follows:
1. Electronic Medical Records: What Should You Be Doing Now? 2. Ultrahigh-Field-Strength MRI and Premium-Slice CT: Do You Really Need Them? Now? 3. Physician Preference Items: Do Your Docs Know the Costs? 4. Robotic-Assisted Systems for Surgery and Endovascular Catheterization: How Many Should You Have? 5. Radiation Oncology: Will Proton Centers Fulfill Their Promise? 6. Radio-Frequency Identification Technology: What Problems Can It Really Solve? 7. Alarm Integration Technologies: How Best to Monitor All Those Alarms? 8. Hybrid Operating Rooms: How Many of Your ORs Should Have Imaging Capability? 9. Therapeutic Hypothermia after Heart Attack, Stroke, Spinal Cord Injury: Dawn of a New Era in Emergency Medicine? 10. Rapid Tests for Deadly Infections: Where Do They Fit in Infection Control Protocols?
ECRI Institute says its experts compiled the list of important technologies and technology-related issues that hospital leaders should pay close attention to this year. According to ECRI, the list takes into account the convergence of critical economic, patient safety, reimbursement, and regulatory pressures.
To compile the list, ECRI put out an open call throughout the institute for nominations. That call resulted in a nominated list of more than 40 technologies and related issues. The list was then circulated among key institute thought leaders for their rankings.
The report can be downloaded from ECRI's Web site at http://www.ecri.org/documents/top_10_technologies_whitepaper0509.pdf

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