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The Changing economics of medical technology [electronic resource]

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Title The Changing economics of medical technology [electronic resource] / Annetine C. Gelijns and Ethan A. Halm, editors
Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine, Institute of Medicine.
Publisher Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press
Creation Date 1991
Notes Proceedings of a workshop held Dec. 20-21, 1989, supported by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research of the Dept. of Health and Human Services (grant 5 R09 HS055 26 02).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content ""The Changing Economics of Medical Technology""
""Copyright""
""Acknowledgments""
""Preface""
""Contents""
""List of Abbreviations""
""1 An Introduction to the Changing Economics of Technological Innovation in Medicine ""
""A DYNAMIC MODEL OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN MEDICINE""
""THE DYNAMICS OF PHARMACEUTICAL INNOVATION""
""THE DYNAMICS OF DEVICE INNOVATION""
""THE DYNAMICS OF SURGICAL INNOVATION""
""INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS: EUROPE AND JAPAN""
""CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS""
""NOTES""
""REFERENCES""
""2 The Diffusion of New Technology: Costs and Benefits to Health Care ""
""HOW MUCH DOES NEW TECHNOLOGY ADD TO HEALTH CARE COSTS?""""OPTIMAL DIFFUSION OF TECHNOLOGY: THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS PRINCIPLE""
""EFFECTS OF REIMBURSEMENT ON THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES""
""Hospitals""
""HMOs and Managed Care Plans""
""Incentives for Fee-for-Service Physicians""
""FUTURE DIRECTIONS: HOW TO ACHIEVE COST-EFFECTIVE DIFFUSION OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY""
""NOTE""
""3 The Changing Economics of Pharmaceutical Research and Development ""
""CURRENT TRENDS""
""R&D Opportunities""
""R&D Costs""
""Product Life Cycles""
""Effective Patent Life""
""Drug Prices""
""RETURN TO PHARMACEUTICAL R&D""""IMPLICATIONS""
""PUBLIC POLICY CONSIDERATIONS""
""4 Public Policy and Access to New Drugs: The Case of Cancer Chemotherapy ""
""CANCER CARE: A SERIES OF INCREMENTAL INNOVATIONS""
""A PERIOD OF TRANSITION: FROM RAPID GROWTH TO STRICT CONTROL""
""REIMBURSEMENT POLICIES AND THEIR EFFECT ON THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES""
""The Effects of the Prospective Payment System""
""The Dis-Integration of Care""
""Growing Patterns of Denial of Payment""
""Off-Label Use and New Indications""
""Payment for Investigational Therapies""
""EFFECTS OF REIMBURSEMENT POLICIES ON INNOVATION""""The Impact of the PPS on Clinical Research""
""Decreasing Effective Patent Life""
""GROWING DISINCENTIVES TO PROVIDING STATE-OF-THE-ART CARE""
""PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE""
""5 The Impact of Public Policy on Medical Device Innovation: A Case of Polyintervention ""
""THE ASSESSMENT: PUBLIC POLICIES AND MEDICAL DEVICE INNOVATION""
""The Limits of the Traditional Models of Innovation""
""The Pivotal Role of Public Policy""
""THE MEDICAL DEVICE INDUSTRY AS PATIENT""
""THE EVALUATION: THE IMPACT OF POLYINTERVENTION""""Case Study: Lithotripsy""
""Case Study: Intraocular Lenses""
""TREATMENT OPTIONS: IMPROVING THE PUBLIC POLICY ENVIRONMENT""
""Fine-tuning Individual Policies""
""Understanding Polyintervention""
""CONCLUSION""
""6 The Dynamics of Medical Device Innovation: An Innovator's Perspective ""
""PATENTS""
""WHO DOES R&D?""
""FINANCING OF INNOVATION""
""REGULATORY DIFFERENCES""
""THE ROLE OF LIABILITY""
""REIMBURSEMENT""
""CONCLUSIONS""
""SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY""
""7 Reimbursement and the Dynamics of Surgical Procedure Innovation ""
Series Medical innovation at the crossroads
v. 2
Extent 1 online resource (224 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010702150305171
MARC RECORDS

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