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For many hospital leaders, deciding which technology investments to prioritize while balancing tight budgets is a tall order.
At Carson Valley Medical Center in Minden, Nev., Chief Nursing Officer Andrea Highfill, DNP, RN, approaches this challenge by starting with a fundamental question: Is there a significant demand for the technology? If the answer is yes, the next step is collecting data to weigh the product’s price tag against what it could cost the organization to forego the investment.
Dr. Highfill and her peers recently followed this process, after surgeons began requesting a $1 million orthopedic surgical robot.
“Once we started hearing this buzz that it was in high demand, we wanted to capture that in data,” she said....
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