 Why Do Health Economists Promote Technology Adoption Rather Than the Search for Efficiency? A Proposal for a Change in Our Approach to Economic Evaluation in Health CareGraham Scotland and Stirling Bryan Medical Decision Making, 2017, vol. 37, issue 2, 139-147 Abstract: At a time of intense pressure on health care budgets, the technology management challenge is for disinvestment in low-value technologies and reinvestment in higher value alternatives. The aim of this article is to explore ways in which health economists might begin to redress the observed imbalance between the evaluation of new and existing in-use technologies. The argument is not against evaluating new technologies but in favor of the “search for efficiency,†where the ultimate objective is to identify reallocations that improve population health in the face of resource scarcity. We explore why in-use technologies may be of low value and consider how economic evaluation analysts might embrace a broader efficiency lens, first through “technology management†(a process of analysis and evidence-informed decision making throughout a technology’s life cycle) and progressing through “pathway management†(the search for efficiency gains across entire clinical care pathways). A number of model-based examples are used to illustrate the approaches. Keywords: health economics methods; decision analysis; economic evaluation; cost-effectiveness analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:medema:v:37:y:2017:i:2:p:139-147 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Medical Decision Making |
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