The sense that recent technological advances have yielded considerable benefits for
everyday life, as well as disappointment over measured productivity and output growth in …

The Economics of Health and Health Care is the market-leading health economics textbook,
providing comprehensive coverage of all the key topics, and balancing economic theory …

The US health care system is in crisis. At stake are the quality of care for millions of
Americans and the financial well-being of individuals and employers squeezed by …

Medical technology is valuable if the benefits of medical advances exceed the costs. We
analyze technological change in five conditions to determine if this is so. In four of the …

The measurement of the output of the medical care systeni is necessary to assess the
productivity levels and growth of a country's economy and of course of its medical care …

Three types of entities—nonprofit, for-profit, and government—own hospitals. Yet we know
neither whether hospital types specialize in different medical services nor how service …

This paper analyzes the productivity of technology and job design in emergency response
systems, or 911 systems.'During the 1990s, many 911 systems adopted Enhanced …

Hospitals operate in markets with varied demographic, competitive, and ownership
characteristics, yet research on ownership tends to examine hospitals in isolation. Here we …

Regulation of the pharmaceutical sector needs to reconcile private and social objectives.
Public intervention pursues multiple goals which relate to both health and industry policy …

We survey the evidence on CPI bias and provide our best estimate of its magnitude. We also
identify a “weighting” bias that has not been quantified previously. We estimate that the CPI …