Health Technologies and Decision Making
ISBN: 9789264016224
Platform/Publisher: OECD / OECD Publishing
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapters; Download: chapters
Subjects: Science and Technology / Social Issues/ Migration/ Health;

Health technology has the tremendous potential to change our understanding of disease, transform the delivery of health-care services, and improve health outcomes. But using such technology comes at a price. "Health Technologies and Decision Making" analyses the barriers to, and facilitators of, evidence-based decision making in OECD health-care systems. It examines how countries can successfully manage the opportunities and challenges arising from health-related technology by optimising decision-making processes, recognising the value of innovation, dealing with uncertainty, and producing and co-ordinating health technology assessment. The book also considers the capacity of health systems to respond to the particular challenges of fast-developing health-related biotechnologies.

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