| Adopting New Medical Technology Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine (Author), Committee on Technological Innovation in (Author), Dawkins, Holly V. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0309050359 ISBN-13: 9780309050357 Publisher: National Academies Press OUR PRICE: $52.25 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1994 Annotation: The proceedings presented her summarize the fourth in a series of Institute of Medicine workshops whose intent is to critically examine medical innovation--that is, the process by which scientific and technological findings are translated into actual benefits in clinical practice. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Biotechnology - Medical | Health Care Delivery |
| Dewey: 610 |
| LCCN: 94007852 |
| Series: Medical Innovation at the Crossroads |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.98" W x 9" (0.86 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What information and decision-making processes determine how and whether an experimental medical technology becomes accepted and used? Adopting New Medical Technology reviews the strengths and weaknesses of present coverage and adoption practices, highlights opportunities for improving both the decision-making processes and the underlying information base, and considers approaches to instituting a much-needed increase in financial support for evaluative research. Essays explore the nature of technological change; the use of technology assessment in decisions by health care providers and federal, for-profit, and not-for-profit payers; the role of the courts in determining benefits coverage; strengthening the connections between evaluative research and coverage decision-making; manufacturers' responses to the increased demand for outcomes research; and the implications of health care reform for technology policy. |