private and public healthcare systems. Healthcare technology is not an exogenous variable as is usually assumed. In a complete …

observed medical technologies by country. Our second set of regressions proxy technology using a spatial process. The paper … expectancy are significant and point to the existence of interdependence across countries in technology adoption. Furthermore …

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

technology on the hospital. The NUB will not be granted if there is not enough medical or economic evidence or if the new … technology does not lead to a specific increase of costs. The value of this threshold is only known by the InEK. The amount of … there is enough data of resource use and costs for the new technology the InEK will determine either (1) a national add on …

Many questions about technology growth and development in health care call for a broad-based characterization of … technology availability. In this paper, we explore the possibility of producing aggregated estimates of technology availability … by constructing an index of technology availability in hospitals. Our index is based on the number of services provided …