Health care delivery: the impact of recent technological developments

If one reviews the more heralded applications of technology to medicine, one quickly realizes that the emergence of an extremely ingenious technological device is not tantamount to its successful application. This seems especially true of the myriad of innovative devices introduced to our health care delivery system. Despite demonstrations and evaluations which convincingly show a potential for increasing productivity, at improved or maintained levels of quality, too many of these innovations never realize their hoped-for potential.