{"id":22118,"date":"2024-07-22T11:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscientists.com\/?p=22118"},"modified":"2024-07-30T15:32:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T15:32:17","slug":"implementing-new-technology-in-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digitalscientists.com\/blog\/implementing-new-technology-in-healthcare\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Barriers to Implementing New Technology in Healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Healthcare innovation helps drive the future of care forward. It also contributes to longer lifespans, more accurate diagnoses, more intuitive patient experiences, and much more. But implementing technology in healthcare isn\u2019t always easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From lack of resources to sensitivity of health data and privacy concerns to lack of organizational readiness, there are plenty of barriers to and issues with implementing new technology in healthcare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are four broad categories of obstacles to implementation that you should know about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Steep Financial Costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As USC Price\u2019s Sol Price School of Public Policy notes, the cost of implementing healthcare<\/a> technologies is one of the first issues many hospitals and clinics face, especially those with limited resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is echoed by a study<\/a> that identified barriers to the adoption of new technology in rural settings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPerhaps the most important organizational barrier to the adoption of new technology is cost. For new technology, both start-up costs and maintenance costs can be exorbitant. Moreover, it is often difficult to directly assess the patient and cost benefit savings of new technology on patient care. Consequently, justification of capital expenditure for new technology may be difficult to obtain\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In other words, for many underfunded facilities, any benefits are outweighed by the inability to fund new healthcare technology initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Lack of Integration & Organizational Readiness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There is often a steep learning curve associated with implementing new healthcare technology, USC Price\u2019s Sol Price School of Public Policy notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This finding is substantiated by a study<\/a> aimed at identifying the barriers and facilitators related to the implementation of radical innovations in secondary healthcare. In fact, this study mentioned several barriers related to organizational readiness\/integration, or the \u201chuman\u201d element of healthcare tech implementation, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n