Title: Medical and biological engineering in the future of health care /
Authors: Andrade, Joseph D., 1941-
Publisher: University of Utah Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Biomechanical Phenomena; Biomedical engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Engineering trends; Information Services trends
Contents: Perspectives on medical technology and health care -- Prioritizing biomedical technologies / Samuel Thier -- Issues in the development and adoption of technology in medicine / Kenneth Keller -- View from the senate / David Durenberger -- View from several perspectives / Gail Wilensky -- Public policy and innovation / Susan Bartlett Foote -- Economics and management -- Health care economics: today and tomorrow / William Pierskalla, Martha Brizendine Jenkinson -- Discussion: continuous quality improvement / Susan Horn -- Discussion: health care economics and management / Kerry Kilpatrick, Robert Huefner -- Romance and reealism: the strategic vision of the National Institutes of Health / Bernadine Healy -- Incentives and new programs -- Technologies, incentives and health care costs: what is in our future? / Burton Weisbrod -- Engineering cost-effective health care technologies / Dov Jaron -- ARPA initiative in biomedical technology / Richard Satava -- National initiatives for the enhancement of information and communication / Michael Nelson.