Medical technology transfer and physician-patient conversation

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Informal communication is known to facilitate industrial technology transfer. An analysis is done to investigate the hypothesis that interactive conversation in medical care affects physician and patient collaboration in the transfer of soft therapeutic technology into the patient's body functions. Two different situations are presented where the recommendation of a non-communicative physician is rejected by a patient and where the same patient responds to innovative technology with a conversing physician.

Innovations, Physician and patient, Physician-patient relations, Technology transfer

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The new realities in health care technology assessment in US institutions

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Analysis of healthcare technology assessment realities in US medical institutions reveals that focus has shifted from capital budgeting proposals and revenue enhancement to marginal cost analysis and cost-reduction. The shift in focus calls for skills pertaining to marginal cost-finding and analysis, detailed process and activity mapping, outcome mapping and integrative modelling.

Medical & Health Services, Management, Health facilities, Health services administration

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Medical technology and health-care expenditures: the Dutch experience in the period 1970-1990

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The impact of technological change on health care goes beyond the effects on doctors and patients. An economic analysis on the Netherlands is done to examine the impact of technological change on health care expenditures from 1970-1990. Increase in health care expenditures reaching 460% was due to inflation and technological change, while ageing had a minimal impact.

Health aspects, Research, Netherlands, Technological innovations, Medical technology

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