An evaluation of electronic resources in an organization. The purpose of which is to help improve an organization's understanding and use of technology to achieve their mission.
The term used to describe the evaluation process of new or existing diagnostic and therapeutic devices and procedures. Technology assessment evaluates the effect of a medical procedure, diagnostic tool, medical device, or pharmaceutical product. In the past, technology assessment meant primarily evaluating new equipment, focusing on the clinical safety and efficacy of an intervention, in today's health care world, it includes a broader view of clinical outcomes, such as the effect on a patient's quality of life, and the effect on society.
A technique for evaluating the consequences of applying technology to the problems of society.
An analytical tool used to help understand the likely impact of the use of a new technology by an industry or by society.
To evaluate new or existing diagnostic and therapeutic devices and procedures. Technology assessment evaluates the effect of a medical procedure, diagnostic tool, medical device, or pharmaceutical product. In the past, technology assessment meant primarily evaluating new equipment and focused on the clinical safety and efficacy of an intervention. However, in today's health care world, it includes both a broader view of clinical outcome, such as the effect on a patient's quality of life, and the effect on society, such as cost-benefit analysis.
This term describes as assessment/evaluation/review on the use of a given technology for a given application(s) and comparison to other technologies used to diagnose or treat the same condition.
A procedure by which managers try to foresee the effects of new products and processes on their company's operation, on other business organisations and on society in general. p. 48
Technology assessment (TA, German Technikfolgenabschätzung) is the study and evaluation of new technologies. It is based on the conviction that new developments within, and discoveries by, the scientific community are relevant for the world at large rather than just for the scientific experts themselves, and that technological progress can never be free of ethical implications. Also, technology assessment recognizes the fact that scientists normally are not trained ethicists themselves and accordingly ought to be very careful when passing ethical judgement on their own, or their colleagues´, new findings, projects, or work in progress.
