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The Economics of Medical Technology

Proceedings of an International Conference on Economics of Medical Technology

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Frans F. H. Rutten

    1. Department of Health Economics, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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  2. Stanley J. Reiser

    1. Health Science Center at Houston, The University of Texas, Houston, USA

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Part of the book series: Health Systems Research (HEALTH)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Introduction

    • Frans F. H. Rutten, Stanley J. Reiser
    Pages 1-2

  3. The Early Assessment of Health Care Technology: Introducing the Artificial Heart

    • S. J. Reiser
    Pages 3-9

  4. The Marketplace for Medical Technology

    • B. Abel-Smith
    Pages 10-15

  5. The Transfer of Medical Technology in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

    • H. D. Banta
    Pages 16-24

  6. Public Control of the Diffusion of Health Technology

    • F. F. H. Rutten, J. M. Greep, G. H. M. G. Haan
    Pages 25-32

  7. Diffusion of Medical Technology: A Case Study of Policy in Europe and the Netherlands

    • L. M. J. Groot
    Pages 33-43

  8. Economic Techniques for Technology Assessment

    • M. C. Weinstein
    Pages 44-53

  9. Technology Assessment in Europe: Its Present and Future Roles

    • A. J. Culyer
    Pages 54-79

  10. A Working View of Technology Assessment: The Case of Digital Subtraction Angiography

    • E. Jonsson, L. Ã… Markẽ, S. Olsson
    Pages 80-89

  11. Changing Environment: Decentralized Use of Medical Technology

    • J. E. Blanpain
    Pages 90-98

  12. The Birth and Development of an Innovation: The Case of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    • A. L. Luiten
    Pages 99-108

  13. Economics and the Rational Use of Medical Technology

    • A. Williams
    Pages 109-120

  14. Ethical Aspects of Medical Technology

    • P. Riis
    Pages 121-126

  15. Educational Aspects of the Economics of Medical Technology

    • G. Mooney
    Pages 127-134

  16. General Conclusions

    • B. Jennett
    Pages 135-140
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Technological development has created major possibilities for the treatment of disease and for the disabled. The cost of new technologies has added considerably to health care cost intlation, which still exceeds the growth rates of most national economies. The share of national resources devoted to health care is still rising, although at a lesser pace than in the seventies. -Therefore, the use of medical technology confronts us with some of the major dilemmas in society today. The routine and intensive use of technology has transformed the most basic interpersonal and social features of medicine. It has altered the means through which patient and doctor communicate about illness as well as the content of this communication, changed the doctor's relationship to medical colleagues by increasing his dependence on them, altered the place and form of practice by creating advantages for the centralization of medical care in complex organizations, and created for society new responsibilities and powers to influence the context and scope of medical practice.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Health Economics, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Frans F. H. Rutten

  • Health Science Center at Houston, The University of Texas, Houston, USA

    Stanley J. Reiser

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Economics of Medical Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Proceedings of an International Conference on Economics of Medical Technology

  • Editors: Frans F. H. Rutten, Stanley J. Reiser

  • Series Title: Health Systems Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72785-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1988

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-17984-9Published: 11 December 1987

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-72785-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-4002

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 140

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general

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