Design Pattern · September 2026
Technology absorption decision
Choose whether a care organization should build, buy, license, partner for, or consume a technical component.
Under the pillar Care Delivery as the Product
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Record clinical importance, substitutability, integration cost, switching cost, rights, evidence, supplier risk, maintenance, capital burden, and effect on the care pathway.
Ownership test
Own when control changes the outcome, defensibility, safety, financeability, or ability to learn. Consume when the capability is interchangeable and dependence is manageable.
Review
Revisit the choice as technical supply, cost, performance, rights, and the care model change.
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Technology absorption decision application record
Apply Technology absorption decision to a real piece of work and record what happened.
- For
- Clinical, operational, product, reimbursement, and implementation leaders.
- What you keep
- A technology absorption decision application record you can review, revise, and send.
- What counts as sound
- Names a real setting
- Shows the work before and after
- Records exceptions
- Uses an observable result
- Ends with keep, revise, or stop
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