The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation of the hospital from a fringe institution to one essential to the practice of medicine. In this paper, we explore how access to the hospital and modern medicine affects...

This paper investigates the potential of new technologies to reduce disparities in the provision of healthcare services. Differences in providers’ skills may cause variation in patient outcomes. The adoption of innovations, like robots, can attenuate this problem if technological gains are...

This paper elaborates on the general properties of medical innovation processes. It begins with a critical review of different perspectives and methods of investigation used in various streams of research that have previously analysed technical change in the health sector. After profiling and...

Variation in technology adoption is a key driver of differences in productivity. Previous studies sought to explain variations in technology adoption by heterogeneity in profitability, costs of adoption, or other factors. Less is known about how adoption is affected by bias in the perceived...

The active digitalization of the healthcare system has given impetus to the emergence of a new type of enterprise-high-tech medical organizations (HMO). Their main distinguishing feature is the use of innovative high-tech medical equipment. However, the high cost of this equipment has become a...

Intro -- DOCTORING MEDICAL GOVERNANCE: MEDICAL SELF-REGULATION IN TRANSITION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- DEDICATION -- INTRODUCTION -- FROM ANCIENT BEGINNINGS TO THE 1858 MEDICAL ACT -- Ancient Beginnings -- Galen's Humors -- Galenic Medicine and the Christian Worldview -- The Enlightenment and...