Management-focused scientific evaluation is a useful administrative tool especially when hospitals implement a new technology. This paper describes the components of a scientific evaluation framework and then illustrates the application and the utility of the framework in a hospital-based community oncology setting. The clinical technology, Telesynergy, is an advanced telecommunications and remote medical consultation system which has been developed by the National Cancer Institute to support community hospital-based radiation oncology programs.
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