Abstract
A major driver of cost growth in health care is the rapid increase in the utilisation of existing technology and not simply the adoption of new technology. Health economists and their health technology assessment colleagues have become obsessed by technology adoption questions and have largely ignored ‘technology management’ questions. Technology management would include the life-cycle assessment of technologies in use, to assess their real-world performance; and monitoring of technology indication creep. A rebalancing of focus might serve to encourage a more self-critical and learning culture amongst those involved in technology evaluation analysis. Further, health economists and health technology assessment analysts could make a more significant contribution to system efficiency through rebalancing their efforts away from technology adoption questions towards technology management issues.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 379-383 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Health Economics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 4 Mar 2014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2014 |
Keywords
- technology evaluation
- technology adoption decision-making
- technology management
Documents and Links
- Bryan, S. et al (2014) Breaking the addiction to technology adoption
This is the accepted author manuscript of an article published in Health Economics by Wiley. Bryan, S., Mitton, C. and Donaldson, C. (2014), BREAKING THE ADDICTION TO TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION. Health Econ., 23: 379–383. doi:10.1002/hec.3034 Available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hec.3034/abstract;jsessionid=F3EC2AD9C9EE974EBEE3CE6BB1B361D4.f03t02 Copyright: 2014 Wiley