Jayanta Bhattacharya,William B Vogt
Jayanta Bhattacharya
We construct and test a new model of employer-provided health insurance provision in the presence of adverse selection in the health insurance market. In our model, employers cannot observe the health of their employees, but can decide whet...
The Crowd, the Cloud and Improving the Future of Medical Device Innovation [0.03%]
大众、云端与改善医疗设备创新的未来
Marco Huesch,Robert Szczerba
Marco Huesch
Barriers and delays to medical device innovation are often solely attributable to the regulatory environment instead of both the current state of innovation practices and product development processes in the industry. Increasing the pace of...
Kathryn A Phillips,Julie Ann Sakowski,Su-Ying Liang et al.
Kathryn A Phillips et al.
The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of economic evaluation of personalized medicine, focusing particularly on the use of cost-effectiveness analysis and other methods of valuation. We draw on insights from the literature a...
Gregory Bloss,John G Haaga
Gregory Bloss
Don S Kenkel,Hua Wang
Don S Kenkel
Personalized prevention uses family history and predictive genetic testing to identify people at high risk of serious diseases. The availability of predictive genetic tests is a newer and still-developing phenomenon. Many observers see trem...
Personalized Medicine in the Context of Comparative Effectiveness Research [0.03%]
比较疗效研究背景下的个体化医疗方案
Anirban Basu
Anirban Basu
The world of patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) seems to bridge the previously disjointed worlds of comparative effectiveness research (CER) and personalized medicine (PM). Indeed, theoretical reasoning on how information on medical ...
Dana P Goldman,Charu Gupta,Eshan Vasudeva et al.
Dana P Goldman et al.
Personalized medicine - the targeting of therapies to individuals on the basis of their biological, clinical, or genetic characteristics - is thought to have the potential to transform health care. While much emphasis has been placed on the...
David O Meltzer
David O Meltzer
Personalized medicine is best viewed from a broad perspective of trying to use information about a patient to improve care. While "personalized medicine" often emphasizes the value of genetic information, traditional clinical approaches to ...
Measuring the Financial Exposure from Medical Care Spending Among Families with Employer Sponsored Insurance [0.03%]
雇主赞助保险家庭的医疗保健支出财务风险衡量标准
Jean M Abraham,Anne Beeson Royalty,Thomas DeLeire
Jean M Abraham
We develop an empirical method to assess the degree of financial exposure associated with medical care spending among non-elderly US families with employer-sponsored insurance. A key feature of this method is its simplicity - it only requir...
Federica Origo,Claudio Lucifora
Federica Origo
Many European countries have recently implemented comprehensive smoking bans to reduce exposure to tobacco smoke in public places and all indoor workplaces. We use a difference-in-differences approach and comparable microdata for a number o...