Due to the report's selection bias, its assumptions and failure to fully consider the effect of the technology on productivity, it paints a misleading and incomplete picture. The selection of the technologies identified in this study suggests strong bias.
Diagnostic technologies show economic benefit over time.
Identifying a disease early can substantially save health care costs in later years for which the study provides no spending reduction. In addition, the analysis attributes many related costs of care to the use of a technology. This is a particularly biased methodology for screening technologies since it attributes costs of resulting therapy to the initial diagnostic items. Moreover, the economic value of the test depends on a host of factors, including the effectiveness of treatment. Project HOPE was specifically instructed to omit information technologies.