Similar Search Results

Spillover effects and other determinants of medical device uptake in the presence of a medical guideline : an analysis of drug-eluting stents in Germany and Italy

Möllenkamp, Meilin; Pongiglione, Benedetta; Rabbe, Stefan - In: Health economics 31 (2022), pp. 157-178

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013433349

Medicare and the rise of American medical patenting : the economics of user-driven innovation

Clemens, Jeffrey; Olsen, Morten - 2021

Innovation is part idea generation and part development. We build a model of "innovating-by-doing," whereby ideas come to practitioners. Successful innovation requires that practitioners' ideas be developed through costly effort. Our model nests existing theories of laboratory research and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500504

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - 2014

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183745

Setting Limits : Medical Technology and the Law

Smith, George P. - 2019

medical judgment made by physicians as the primary gatekeepers to health care resources …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220754

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068471

Medical innovations and ageing : a health economics perspective

Grossmann, Volker - 2021

This paper discusses the relationship between medical innovations and ageing from a health economics perspective and surveys empirical evidence on medical R&D incentives, R&D costs of pharmaceuticals, and the cost-effectiveness of health innovations. Particular focus is on the endogeneity of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653346

Current advancements in drone technology for medical sample transportation

Stierlin, Noel; Risch, Martin; Risch, Lorenz - In: Logistics 8 (2024) 4, pp. 1-26

Background: The integration of drone technology into healthcare logistics presents a significant opportunity to enhance the speed, reliability, and efficiency of medical sample transportation. Methods: This paper provides a narrative review of current advancements in drone technology, focusing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015188561

Medical technology and life expectancy : evidence from the antitoxin treatment of diphtheria

Ager, Philipp; Hansen, Casper Worm; Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2023

This paper studies the impact of the first effective medical treatment for an infectious disease -diphtheria antitoxin- on the historical health transition in the United States. Using an instrumental variable for local antitoxin adoption rates and information from approximately 1.6 million death...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429276

Demand shocks, procurement policies, and the nature of medical innovation : evidence from wartime prosthetic device patents

Clemens, Jeffrey; Rogers, Parker - 2020

We analyze wartime prosthetic device patents to investigate how demand and procurement policy can shape medical innovation. We use machine learning tools to develop new data describing the aspects of medical and mechanical innovations that are emphasized in patent documents. Our analysis of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388245

Die Alterung - nur eine Nebensache für das Gesundheitswesen? : Ergebnisse für die Schweiz

Colombier, Carsten - 2016

In diesem Papier wird gezeigt, dass eine alternde Bevölkerung zu einem zunehmenden Kostendruck im Gesundheitswesen … zur Diskussion über die Bedeutung der Alterung für das Gesundheitswesen, indem wir (i) die Determinanten der Schweizer … Gesundheitswesen sind. Die Gesundheitspolitik kann das Ausgabenwachstum insbesondere durch Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung des …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447201