relating to policies or efforts to change the structure, payment or operating practice, especially as it related to cost, of the healthcare field.
Below is Cleveland Clinic’s list of the top ten medical innnovations for their potential impact on patient care in the coming year. (I’ll add my two cents afterward.)
Use of circulating tumor cell technology. Improves adjustments to cancer treatment, particularly for patients with repeat cancer
Warm organ perfusion device. Increases from 4 to 12 [...]
Reading recent interpretations of “Value-Based Purchasing for Medical Devices“, it is not surprising to see, once again, the conclusion that medical technology is a significant source of rising healthcare costs.
We all need to think outside envelope, though. Medical technology drives costs but also provides solutions we cannot resist.
The tendency of healthcare cost analyses is to [...]
Forgive this less-than-medtech-relevant sidebar on the wild swings of optimism, pessimism, hope and fear. Perhaps, all things being equal, the simplest explanation is the right one.
Like Tom Hanks’ character in the movie “Big”, when he puts up his hand and says, “I don’t get it” (in his case a toy building that turns into [...]
There is certainly the possibility (despite my doubts) that the current economic slowdown in global markets will have major effects on the medical technology industry. One simply cannot deny that there is simply less VC or other cash floating around that might be put to medtech investment. And maybe, as has occurred in [...]
The credit crunch that has morphed into a global recession, or at least generated enough fears of a recession to drive the stock market way down, is now raising questions like, “is anyone immune?”
Of course, some sectors are more immunoresistant to the investment squeeze than others, notably the healthcare field, putatively unperturbed as it is [...]
There’s no question that, whatever label you place on its current state of malaise, the U.S. economy is not in good shape.
The question is asked whether health care should remain a safe haven. After all, there is a downward pressure on prices and there is a latent need for serious reform. At this point, let’s [...]
