Santosh Kumar, PhD, Wendy J. Nilsen, PhD, Amy Abernethy, MD, Audie Atienza, PhD, Kevin Patrick, MD, MS, Misha Pavel, PhD, William T. Riley, PhD, Albert Shar, PhD, Bonnie Spring, PhD, Donna Spruijt-Metz, PhD, Donald Hedeker, PhD, Vasant Honavar, PhD, Richard Kravitz, MD, R. Craig Lefebvre, PhD, David C. Mohr, PhD, Susan A. Murphy, PhD, Charlene Quinn, PhD, Vladimir Shusterman, MD, PhD, Dallas Sw...

Background New technologies constitute an important cost-driver in healthcare, but the dynamics that lead to their emergence remains poorly understood from a health policy standpoint. The goal of this paper is to clarify how entrepreneurs, investors, and regulatory agencies influence the value of emerging health technologies.   Methods Our 5-year qualitative research program examined the proces...

There are numerous everyday health technologies (applications designed for people to use in their daily lives) that promote healthy eating habits. From educational games to monitoring applications, these systems often take a corrective approach in that they are designed to fix the problematic aspects of people's interactions with, and thoughts about, food. We propose a complementary approach, t...

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 The ongoing development of information and communication technology (ICT) is taking the healthcare industry to the next level. It allows an independent healthca...

this brief commentary seeks to develop the analysis of daniels, porteny and urrutia of the implications of expansion of the scope of health technology assessment (hta) beyond issues of safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness. drawing in particular on experience in the united kingdom, it suggests that such expansion can be understood not only as a response to the problem of insufficiency of evi...