When deployed in a rational way, technology usually leads to increased productivity and growth. There is no technical reason why technology can't achieve the same result when applied to health care that it has achieved in other sectors. With this in mind, this paper focuses on the utilization of technology to: (1) identify costs and benefits associated with specific health care services, and (2) reduce some of these costs.

Date Published: 27 October 1995
PDF: 10 pages
Proc. SPIE 2499, Health Care Technology Policy II: The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care: Providing the Solutions, (27 October 1995); doi: 10.1117/12.225345

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 2499:
Health Care Technology Policy II: The Role of Technology in the Cost of Health Care: Providing the Solutions
Warren S. Grundfest M.D., Editor(s)