Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 2002-06-06 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780309084161 |
ISBN-13 | : 0309084164 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A committee of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine organized a conference to examine key health care trends and their impact on medical innovation. The conference addressed the following question: In an environment of renewed concern about rising health care costs, where can public policy stimulate or remove disincentives to the development, adoption and diffusion of high-value innovation in diagnostics, therapeutics, and devices?