Evaluation of new technologies in health-care systems: what’s the context?
Health Informatics JournalPublished 1 June 2000Open access
Carl May, Maggie Mort, Frances S Mair, Nicola Ellis, Linda Gask
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An agenda for a more complex and richer understanding of evaluation as a set of professional and organizational dynamics is set out.
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Evaluation is an essential component of the introduction of new technologies, treatment modalities and models of service delivery across the health-care sector. Such work attracts significant levels of public funding, but little attention has been paid to understanding evaluation as more than a set of applied methodological activities. This paper sets out an agenda for a more complex and richer understanding of evaluation as a set of professional and organizational dynamics.
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