@techreport{Kulvik2006Adoption,
abstract = {New technological applications are usually expected to increase the health care costs. But they can also spawn cost savings in the long run, for example, when making time-consuming diagnostic methods more efficient and facilitating targeted therapy. This study analyses how the implementation of new technological applications in acute treatment affects the long-term cost structure of health care. The non-monetary utility is compared to cost-efficiency impacts of a new technology. A theoretical apparatus is constructed and utilized in two empirical cases: thrombolytic therapy for stroke, and Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) on glioblastoma-type brain cancers. The empirical cases indicate how the monetary cost-efficiency of the new technologies can be related to the nonmonetary patient utility.},
address = {Helsinki},
author = {Martti Kulvik and Ismo Linnosmaa and Raine Hermans},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {I11; L65; 330; technology, health care, costs; Gesundheitswesen; Gesundheits\"{o}konomik; Medizintechnisches Ger\"{a}t; Kosten-Wirksamkeits-Analyse; Wirtschaftsmodell},
language = {eng},
number = {1037},
publisher = {The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)},
title = {Adoption of new technologies and costs of health care},
type = {ETLA Discussion Papers, The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63658},
year = {2006}
}
