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Management Technologies for Managing the Health Care Sector Technologies

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Managing Technology in Healthcare

Part of the book series: Management of Medical Technology ((MOMT,volume 1))

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From the beeper system used by a solo practitioner making house calls in some rural setting to the MRI unit in a major urban teaching hospital; from the single desktop computer used for automating some of the office procedures in a doctor’s office to the nationwide DRG based prospective reimbursement system; technology in the health care sector is everywhere.

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