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In healthcare technology, Strategic Planning is a healthcare organization's process of defining its device strategy, or technology direction, and making informed decisions on allocating its technology resources to advance patient care.
In order to determine the future technology direction of the healthcare organization, it is necessary to understand the organizations current mission and the possible technology criteria through which a technology board can pursue particular courses of action.
Generally, strategic planning for technology deals with at least one of four key questions:
1. "What equipment do we have past its life expectancy or obsolete?"
2. "Are we prioritizing replacement requests--"rack and stack"?"
3. "Is there newer emerging healthcare technologies?"
4. "Are we remaining competitive against our peers?"
Many organizations view strategic planning as a process for determining where an organization is going over the next year or—more typically—3 to 5 years (long term).
If proper planning has strategic layout then the end result is long term healthcare cost savings transforming technology into a valued investment.[1]
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- ↑ Dyro, Joe,. "Clinical Engineering Handbook." Elsevier Inc, 2004.