New Medical Devices: Invention, Development, and Use (Series on Technology and Social Priorities) - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; National Academy Of Engineering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309038464 ISBN 13: 9780309038461

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1988

Synopsis

In the past 50 years the development of a wide range of medical devices has improved the quality of people's lives and revolutionized the prevention and treatment of disease, but it also has contributed to the high cost of health care. Issues that shape the invention of new medical devices and affect their introduction and use are explored in this volume. The authors examine the role of federal support, the decision-making process behind private funding, the need for reforms in regulation and product liability, the effects of the medical payment system, and other critical topics relevant to the development of new devices.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Part 1: Medical Device Innovation and Health Care
• New Medical Devices and Health Care
• Inventing Medical Devices: Five Inventors
• Technological Innovation and Medical Devices
• Part 2: Current Trends
• Federal Support of Medical Device Innovation
• Private Investment in Medical Device Innovation
• Product Liability and Medical Device Regulation: Proposal for Reform
• Impact of the Changing Medical Payment System on Technological Innovation and Utilization
• A Conflict: Medical Innovation, Access and Cost Containment
• Part 3: How Trends Will Interact
• How Trends Will Interact: The Perspective of the Hospital
• Perspectives of Industry, the Physician, and Government
• Summarizing Reflections
• Contributors
• Index

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National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0309038464
• ISBN 13: 9780309038461
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204