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The importance of quickly translating research into new products and improvements of existing ones is well recognized. Industry must be both efficient and effective. Consequently, demands for system development are growing. In developing systems for health care the challenge is to understand the problem space well enough to derive the right specifications for the right system. In the past it was enough to interview the actual users of the intended system to get the specifications. Nowadays, information technology (IT) is considered to be a strategic resource of the organisation, i.e. it can be used for more than just automating tasks and transferring data.
To use IT in health care effectively one needs to look beyond the first order requirements of those actually using the system. The whole context in which these systems are used needs to be understood to decide how they can be best utilised. Technology assessment is one concept that provides guidelines and tools on how to do this. This paper discusses the role of technology assessment in analysing the problem space.
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