Medical Innovation in the Changing Healthcare Marketplace:

Conference Summary

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Size: 92 pages, 6x9

Publication Year:2002

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Philip Aspden, Editor; Board on Health Care Services; National Research Council
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A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A committee of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine ...
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Front Matter	i-xii
Executive Summary	1-8	(skim)
1. Introduction	9-11	(skim)
2. The Characteristics of Medical Innovation	12-14	(skim)
3. The Costs and Benefits of Medical Innovation	15-24	(skim)
4. Cost-Effectiveness Studies: A Key to Innovation Development	25-33	(skim)
5. Barriers to Medical Innovation	34-42	(skim)
Appendix A: Conference Agenda	43-49	(skim)
Appendix B: Conference Participant List	50-56	(skim)
Appendix C: Keynote Speech: Encouraging High-Value Medical Innovation, Mark McClellan, Council of Economic Advisers	57-64	(skim)
Appendix D: Keynote Speech: Bridging the Quality Chasm, David Lawrence, Kaiser Permanente	65-80	(skim)

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A wave of new health care innovation and growing demand for health care, coupled with uncertain productivity improvements, could severely challenge efforts to control future health care costs. A committee of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine organized a conference to examine key health care trends and their impact on medical innovation. The conference addressed the following question: In an environment of renewed concern about rising health care costs, where can public policy stimulate or remove disincentives to the development, adoption and diffusion of high-value innovation in diagnostics, therapeutics, and devices?

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