Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology AssessmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drugs
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Medical Technology and Costs of the Medicare Program
Author: Medicare's Prospective Payment System
Author: Technology and the Cost of Health Care
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Science, Research, and TechnologyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biomedical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the Medicare Program
Author: Impact of Advances in Medical Technology on Health Care Costs
Author: Ed MaloPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3668021090
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 21
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Health - Public Health, grade: 98, , course: Technological Entrepreneurship, language: English, abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of advances in medical technology on health care costs in the United States. More specifically, this paper provides an overview of just some of the plethora of compelling evidence in the public forum, presented by experts in fields related to this topic which do in fact appear to show the correlation exists. An overview of the changes in health care related expenses and some of the advances in medical technology is also provided for background. Health care costs in the United States continue to rise at alarming rates. As many citizens, politicians, physicians, government policy makers and others speculate as to the causes, some have theorized and studied the impact advances in medical technology have had on the rising costs. Findings are mixed across different articles but case studies by two experts provide some compelling evidence on this theory. One case study shows how medical technology can be part of a sometimes extended and wasteful treatment plan for patients, while the other shows how advanced medical technology can actually reduce treatment costs by preventing unnecessary and costly procedures.
Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs) and the medicare program : implications for medical technology.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 142892390X
Category : Diagnosis related groups
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Taming the Beloved Beast
Author: Daniel CallahanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9781400830947
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Technological innovation is deeply woven into the fabric of American culture, and is no less a basic feature of American health care. Medical technology saves lives and relieves suffering, and is enormously popular with the public, profitable for doctors, and a source of great wealth for industry. Yet its costs are rising at a dangerously unsustainable rate. The control of technology costs poses a terrible ethical and policy dilemma. How can we deny people what they may need to live and flourish? Yet is it not also harmful to let rising costs strangle our health care system, eventually harming everyone? In Taming the Beloved Beast, esteemed medical ethicist Daniel Callahan confronts this dilemma head-on. He argues that we can't escape it by organizational changes alone. Nothing less than a fundamental transformation of our thinking about health care is needed to achieve lasting and economically sustainable reform. The technology bubble, he contends, is beginning to burst. Callahan weighs the ethical arguments for and against limiting the use of medical technologies, and he argues that reining in health care costs requires us to change entrenched values about progress and technological innovation. Taming the Beloved Beast shows that the cost crisis is as great as that of the uninsured. Only a government-regulated universal health care system can offer the hope of managing technology and making it affordable for all.
Medical Technology Under Proposals to Increase Competition in Health Care
Author: The Changing Economics of Medical Technology
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 030904491X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Americans praise medical technology for saving lives and improving health. Yet, new technology is often cited as a key factor in skyrocketing medical costs. This volume, second in the Medical Innovation at the Crossroads series, examines how economic incentives for innovation are changing and what that means for the future of health care. Up-to-date with a wide variety of examples and case studies, this book explores how payment, patent, and regulatory policiesâ€"as well as the involvement of numerous government agenciesâ€"affect the introduction and use of new pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures. The volume also includes detailed comparisons of policies and patterns of technological innovation in Western Europe and Japan. This fact-filled and practical book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, health administrators, health care practitioners, and the concerned public.