Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63658 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
ETLA Discussion Papers No. 1037
Publisher: 
The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA), Helsinki
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.
Subjects: 
technology, health care, costs
JEL: 
I11
L65
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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