IT&C Medical Industry: Seminars, Summits, News

Medicare Payment for Diagnostic Technology: Siemens Chief Medical Officer Offers Perspective on the Health Affairs Blog

Source: HEALTH AFFAIRS    http://www.healthaffairs.org/blog/
(published by the project HOPE)
Date: 20 April 2007

On the Health Affairs Blog, Don Rucker, vice president and chief medical officer of Siemens Medical Solutions, offers a perspective on Medicare payment for imaging services and other diagnostic procedures. Rucker argues that Medicare payment should be based on the “marginal benefit” offered by a diagnostic test -- as measured by the impact of the test on the cost of “the total episode of care" – and not on the “average cost” of the test.

You may read and comment on Rucker's post at:
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2007/04/19/tech-19th-century-economics-and-21st-century-medicare-paying-for-modern-diagnosis/

Telehealth Industry in Canada - Profile and Capability Analysis

You will find on Industry Canada's web site, the full text of a report written about 8 months ago by Jocelyne Picot and Trevor Cradduck and recently published by Industry Canada on the Telehealth Industry in Canada - profile and capability analysis.

This is the location of the document:

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSG/it05488e.html

Également disponible en français sur le même site web;

http://strategis.ic.gc.ca/SSGF/it05488f.html

EC IST - FET Programme "Exhibition to showcase EU-supported technology"
Date: 25 - 27 September 2001