The Paradox of Productivity, Technology, and Innovation in Canadian Healthcare

Download or read book The Paradox of Productivity, Technology, and Innovation in Canadian Healthcare written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On taking power in the fall of 2015, the Canadian In this Commentary, we analyze the role of Liberal government appointed a minister of healthcare technology and innovation as drivers innovation, science and economic development to of the nation's productivity performance. [...] Jane Philpott, the federal minister of health, has However, there are reasons to believe that stated that some of the ideas in the 2015 report healthcare R&D in the past - as a result of of the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation misaligned incentives in health systems - did (commonly referred to as the Naylor Report, after not focus enough on cost-reducing innovations. [...] Implicitly, therefore, the GDP statistics estimates of the economic value of better health - reflect only the cost of the resources that go as in particular, the value of longer life expectancy as inputs into the healthcare sector, not the value of a result of reduced mortality from serious health 3 In the absence of good direct measures of technology's contributions to health, the most common mea [...] This level of Commonwealth Fund Survey that asks patients, unnecessary care is comparable to that in the United the general public, and primary-care providers in States, the only country whose healthcare system is 11 developed countries about access to healthcare ranked lower than Canada's by the Commonwealth and the quality, efficiency, and equity of care. [...] In the Canadian setting, the issue of incentives is also complicated by the many different actors who are involved in decisions about the adoption of new technology (drugs, biologics, imaging and radiation machines, diagnostic equipment, and the like), as mentioned in note 1. 1 1 Commentary 480 and emulate them in a manner most appropriate to system.