Technological Managament in Public and Private Healthcare Centers). Quintero de B, Rita Cecilia

Abstract

The purpose of the present investigation consisted in the analysis of the activities of the administrative and operative functions of the technology management in health centers, these last ones expressed through the identification and determination of the acquisition, transference, adoption, assimilation and technological innovation, evaluated by means of the technological audit. The investigation was of the descriptive type, field research, and applied one, the design of the investigation was nonexperimental and transeccional. Observation units were constituted by technical and assistant staff who works in these centers. The sample was equal to the population, so the technique was employed was the population census. The population consisted of 50 subjects of the staff of the gynecology - obstetrics and oncology at public and private institutions studied, consistent with the parameters of inclusion related to accessibility and availability of subjects to be surveyed. A questionnaire was used as a data collection technique which was subjected to testing of validity and reliability. Statistical analysis of data allowed the interpretation of results, showing that in both types of institutions, the activities concerning to the administrative functions of the management are performed, probably as part of the process of general administration. Operative functions are partially developed in both types of institution, in terms of transference and assimilation in public institutions and adoption in the private ones. None of the types of institutions carry out innovation or technological audit. The hospitals as health centers, fulfill a series of efforts that are an important inputs that leads to the orientation of strengths and opportunities that these organizations can develop based on the technological management, directed to the attention of human being, the backbone of society on which focuses each one of the activities that allow the development of the same, for which the health constitutes a medullary aspect.