Standard medical diagnosis requires attaching sensors or electrodes to the patient and then connecting these electrodes to bulky equipment powered by mains supply. This is usually an acceptable procedure for short term patient monitoring. However, for long term monitoring, this approach is neither comfortable nor durable. Therefore considering fully implantable electronic systems which have man...

RESULTS Compared with the subjects from 1998 through 1999, those in 2008were older and hadmore comorbidities but slightly less ischemic heart disease and cerebrovascular disease. Although there was a 19.2% decline in the rate of hospitalizations for AMI, overall expenditures per patient increased by 16.5% (absolute difference, $6094). Of the total risk-adjusted increase in expenditures, 25.6% o...

Nearly one in five Medicare beneficiaries has diabetes and these patients face major challenges in managing their health. The high diabetes rate among beneficiaries also means that the Medicare program itself is highly vulnerable to the high costs of uncontrolled diabetes. As a result, great care must be taken when implementing any new cost containment strategy that has the potential to disrupt...

The "aftermarkets" literature focuses on two important questions: (1) do durable goods manufacturers that control their aftermarkets have an incentive to charge service prices that exceed costs?; (2) how significant (in a welfare sense) is this distortion? Unlike previous work, this paper addresses the latter question by explicitly modeling firm behavior under various market structure condition...

BACKGROUND Previous research has identified inaccessible medical equipment as a barrier to health care services encountered by people with disabilities. However, no research has been conducted to understand why medical practices lack accessible equipment. OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this study was to examine practice administrators' knowledge of accessible medical equipment and cost ...

BACKGROUND Nowadays Medical equipment plays an important role in the treatment and in the medical education. Using outdated preventive maintenance (PM) system may cause problems in the cutting edge medical equipment, Nervous system disease's equipment (In diagnosis and treatment) which are crucial for every medical center. Based on above facts we focused on nervous system treat units' equipment...