The economics of new health technologies
Subtitle: incentives, organization, and financing
By: edited by Joan Costa-Font, Christophe Courbage, Alistair McGuire.
Contributors: Costa-i-Font, Joan.; Courbage, Christophe.; McGuire, Alistair.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780199550685
Subjects: Medical technology -- Economic aspects; Technology, Medical -- economics; Economics, Medical
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What do we do about the role of health care technology in driving health care expenditure growth? / Alistair McGuire and Victoria Serra-Sastre; title: The process of health care innovation : problem sequences, systems, and symbiosis / Davide Consoli ... [et al.]; title: Technology : scientific force or power force? / Nick Bosanquet; title: Diffusion of health technologies : evidence from the pharmaceutical sector / Victoria Serra-Sastre and Alistair McGuire; title: Insurance and new technology / Mark V. Pauly and Adam Isen; title: Technological change and health insurance / Peter Zweifel; title: Health insurance and the uptake of new drugs in the United States / Marin Gemmill, Victoria Serra-Sastre, and Joan Costa-Font; title: Genetic advances and health insurance / Lilia Filipova and Michael Hoy; title: Ageing and pharmaceutical innovation / Roland Eisen and Yasemin Ilgin; title: New approaches to health care innovation : information for the chronic patient / Manuel Garcia-Goni and Paul Windrum; title: The convergence of nano-, bio- and information technologies in healthcare / Nicola Pangher; title: Treatment uncertainty and irreversibility in medical care : implications for cost-effectiveness analysis / Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, and Lauri Feldman; title: The limits and challenges to the economic evaluation of health technologies / Adam Oliver and Corinna Sorenson; title: Intellectual property rights and pharmaceuticals development / Joan Rovira; title: Home or nursing home? The effect of medical innovation on the demand for long-term care / Frank R. Lichtenberg; title: Knowledge, technology, and demand for online health information / Joan Costa-Font, Caroline Rudisill, and Elaias Mossialos; title: Institutional pathways for integrating genetic testing into mainstream health care / Hristina Petkova.