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Health Care’s Technology Cost Crisis

June 1, 2004

Spiraling drug prices aren’t the only challenge facing the U.S. health-care system. Medical technology costs must be controlled, without sacrificing innovation.

by Charles Beever, Heather Burns, and Melanie Karbe

U.S. Health Care’s Technology Cost Crisis

March 31, 2004

Spiraling drug prices aren’t the only challenge facing the U.S. health-care system. Medical technology costs must be controlled, without sacrificing innovation.

by Charles Beever, Heather Burns, and Melanie Karbe

What's Driving Prescription Drug Costs?

September 29, 2003

Spending on prescription drugs is one of the biggest contributors to the unrelenting rise in the cost of health care for business. Critics of rising drug costs are quick to blame pharmaceutical companies’ advertising and aggressive sales practices for the problem. In fact, the real culprit is a third-party reimbursement system that undermines economic incentives to control costs.

by Heather Burns, Charles Beever, and Robert Hutchens

Patient Safety’s Data-Driven Prescription

May 19, 2003

by Heather Burns and Charles Beever

Patient Safety: A Data-Driven Prescription

February 13, 2003

Medical mistakes kill almost 100,000 Americans each year and cost the country as much as $29 billion annually. The right prescription could be a nationwide information system modeled on the FDA’s adverse drug reaction network.

by Heather Burns and Charles Beever

The Prescription for Drug Costs

by Heather Burns, Charles Beever, and Robert Hutchens

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