• DocumentCode
    1203262
  • Title

    Some Problems and Priorities in Health-Care Technology

  • Author

    Harmon, Leon D.

  • Author_Institution
    Biomedical Engineering Division, Case-Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1973
  • fDate
    5/1/1973 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    216
  • Lastpage
    221
  • Abstract
    What should be the priorities for health-care technology a decade from now? Given enormous population expansion and pressure, given increased concern with health care, given diminished efficiency of care owing to these overpressures, and given an enticing banquet of sophisticated technology-what should we do now to shape the future, explicitly and deliberately, so that ten years from now we will not regret lost opportunities?
  • Keywords
    Automatic control; Automatic testing; Computer aided diagnosis; Computerized monitoring; Data processing; Man machine systems; Medical diagnostic imaging; Medical services; Pressure control; Storage automation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9294
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TBME.1973.324276
  • Filename
    4120632