Health Technologies and Decision Making [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2005.
Health technology has the tremendous potential to change our understanding of disease, transform the delivery of health-care services, and improve health outcomes. But using such technology comes at a price. Health Technologies and Decision Making analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems. It examines how countries can successfully manage the opportunities and challenges arising from health-related technology by optimising decision-making processes, recognising the value of innovation, dealing with uncertainty, and producing and co-ordinating health technology assessment. The book also considers the capacity of health systems to respond to the particular challenges of fast-developing health-related biotechnologies.
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CONTENTS; EXECUTIVE SUMMARY; CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2. INNOVATION AND INTEGRATION OF HEALTH TECHNOLGIES: A REVIEW OF THE ISSUES AND LITERATURE; CHAPTER 3. THE PRODUCTION OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF SURVEY RESULTS; CHAPTER 4. DECISION MAKING AND IMPLEMENTATION: AN ANALYSIS OF SURVEY RESULTS; CHAPTER 5. THE USE OF HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT IN THE HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM: LESSONS FROM THREE OECD COUNTRIES; CHAPTER 6. HEALTH-CARE EVALUATION: ISSUES IN TRANSFERABILITY; CHAPTER 7. MANAGING DECISION MAKING UNDER UNCERTAINTY: PERSPECTVIES FROM A CENTRAL ADMINISTRATOR
CHAPTER 8. POLICY DECISION MAKING IN THE FIELD OF BIOMEDICINECHAPTER 9. CONCLUSIONS; ANNEX 1. PARTICIPANTS IN THE MEETINGS ON HEALTH-RELATED TECHNOLOGIES; ANNEX 2. ""SEIZING THE OPPORTUNITIES AND MEETING THE CHALLENGES OF NEW AND EMERGING HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES"": WORKSHOP PROGRAMME; ANNEX 3. SUMMARY OF SURVEY QUESTIONS
Includes bibliographical references.
Health technology has the tremendous potential to change our understanding of disease, transform the delivery of health-care services, and improve health outcomes. But using such technology comes at a price. Health Technologies and Decision Making analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems. It examines how countries can successfully manage the opportunities and challenges arising from health-related technology by optimising decision-making processes, recognising the value of innovation, dealing with uncertainty, and producing and co-ordinating health technology assessment. The book also considers the capacity of health systems to respond to the particular challenges of fast-developing health-related biotechnologies.
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Medical policy
Medical technology
Evidence-based medicine
Health services administration
The OECD Health Project