Introduction:

Technological management in the health sector, that is a key for innovation and the quality of medical care, needs feasible effectiveness and safety criteria for its use in the care hospital environment.

Objective: To evaluate the pertinence of the sanitary technology management for the care safety and quality in hospital environments.

Methods:

It was carried out a bibliographic review in ScienceDirect and SciELO databases, and a qualitative exploratory study that was designed from the opinions collected in the semi-structured interviews performed to a selection health workers with professional and scholar experience in two hospital organizations in Matanzas province. With the information collected, it was analyzed the scientific relevance of the main aspects that were identified as associated to the relation technologies management-safety and quality.

Results:

The use, innovation and assessment of technologies, their influence in the occurrence of human errors, the conditioning of clinical, therapeutic and health recovery practices, and of the environments for the risks care of patients and the health workers were the criteria stated by the respondents and those were in accordance with the scientific literature.

Conclusions:

The thematic analysis and the respondents’ opinions coincide in the importance and impact of the heath technologies management in the safety an d quality of the hospital care, the care practice and research.