Comprehensive Health Care Reform and Biomedical Innovation
By Ezekiel Emanuel
Summary: This paper discusses that in order to arrest the excessive inflation of health care, the costs of technological innovation must be addressed. The authors also note that serious cost control under comprehensive health care reform will have to tackle three technology drivers: the development, adoption, and diffusion. These three technology drivers can be addressed by modifying the current health care system. The author recommends using comparative effectiveness to assess and approve the value of new technologies so that new technology focuses on larger effect sizes and larger populations in need of the technology.
Key Concepts: comparative effectiveness in health care, managing inflation in health care
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