Strategic Planning Process:

Leading private hospital systems have begun to combine strategic technology planning with other technology management activities in a program that effectively integrates new technologies with the hospitals' existing technology base. This has resulted in high quality care at reasonable cost. Among those who have been its leading catalysts, ECRI (formerly the Emergency Care Research Institute) is known for articulating this program and encouraging its proliferation initially among regional healthcare systems and now for single or multihospital systems as well.