Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace - Conference Summary

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?

Product details

• Authors: Board On Health Care Services, Technology Board on Science, Board on Science Technology and Economic, Board on Science Technology and Economic Policy, Institute Of Medicine, National Academy Of Sciences, National Research Council, Policy And Global Affairs
• Assisted by: Philip Aspden (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2002
• EAN: 9780309084161
• ISBN: 978-0-309-08416-1
• No. of pages: 92
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General