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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-09-09
Publisher: Aei Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0844742686
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Innovation and Technology Adoption in Health Care Markets pdf
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The twentieth century brought tremendous advances in health care technology, from antibiotics to laparoscopic surgery to targeted therapies for cancer—but these gains have been expensive. Governments are struggling to control burgeoning expenditures without compromising the quality of health care. Increasingly, these efforts have relied on "cost-effectiveness analysis" that balances costs against patient benefits to determine which treatments will qualify for reimbursement.
Is the use of cost-effectiveness analysis to guide technology adoption wise? Although reimbursement criteria may satisfy government health budgets today, they threaten to stifle the innovation that will generate new breakthroughs in health care technologies tomorrow. Such criteria benefit current patients by lowering the cost of health care in the short term, but they also hurt future patients by limiting producers' incentives for further medical innovation. Developers of drugs to treat HIV/AIDS, for ex Download Innovation and Technology Adoption in Health Care Markets for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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