Early reports from our Partners on their experience using HealthTech:

Facility Planning
"Kaiser Permanente has leveraged facilities information from HealthTech in a number of ways. We have benefited from workshops and received expert consulting on selected issues concerning the hospital template from Joyce Berger, one of HealthTech's Senior Advisors. Our staff has combed and analyzed HealthTech findings on inpatient facility impacts for major facility components. We have used HealthTech's expert review to generate a hospital template, and tapped unique proposals for facility accommodations of changing technology by inviting the main advising architects at HealthTech workshops to become a part of the template review and challenge process. Our hospital template now deliberately provides flexibility for new technologies. HealthTech research has been integral to the facility planning process and final product."

Clinical Program Development
"HealthTech Alerts provide helpful information on technologies with short term planning horizons. After each one is sent out a handful of new people inquire about registration and use of HealthTech's website, or about future HealthTech meetings. It has become apparent that the Alerts are helping to increase awareness about key technologies throughout PeaceHealth. In addition, they stimulate discussion, for example sparking a debate on point of care lab testing between PeaceHealth's lab, clinical, and operational leaders. The debate has yet to be resolved but the discourse resulting from one simple alert was pleasing and we look forward to more dialogue on other issues."

Strategic Planning
"CHRISTUS has re-vamped our strategic planning process to incorporate HealthTech information. This year each of our regional plans were revised to incorporate our top three technology-related priorities (cardiovascular services, minimally invasive surgery, and imaging and diagnostics). HealthTech Research Reports and Executive Summaries were used to educate associates and begin a dialogue at every CHRISTUS region on the implications of this information for our current and proposed strategies. We intend to roll out the rest of the research topics on the website over the next 12 months.

Additionally, as we send CHRISTUS people to HealthTech events, we ask them to prepare a presentation to brief our senior leadership on the information generated at the event. These presentations have become almost part of an internal lecture circuit - touring our system at various regional board retreats and leadership events."