Case studies using graphically enhanced computer software to improve technology assessments and enhance clinical decisions

Author

Sloane, Elliot B. ; Liberatore, Matthew ; Nydick, Robert

Author_Institution

Dept. of Decision & Inf. Technol., Villanova Univ., PA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

2003

fDate

17-21 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

3636

Abstract

This paper describes how clinical engineers and healthcare CIOs, CTOs, and IT/IS specialists can use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to improve the quality of diverse and important decisions that hospitals face today. AHP is a versatile and proven decision support tool that allows the user to design a hierarchical structure for decision-making and weighs the trade-offs between decision criteria and alternatives (Saaty 1977, Saaty 1996).

Keywords

biomedical engineering; computer graphics; decision making; health care; medical computing; software tools; technology management; AHP; Analytic Hierarchy Process; IT/IS specialists; case studies; clinical decisions enhancement; clinical engineers; decision support tool; decision-making; graphically enhanced computer software; healthcare CIO; healthcare CTO; hospitals; technology assessments; Books; Business; Computer aided software engineering; Decision making; Educational institutions; Finance; Hospitals; Information analysis; Information technology; Medical services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE

ISSN

1094-687X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7789-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280942

Filename

1280942