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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Medical technologies"”.
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Managing the diffusion of medical technologies
… aim of the study was to understand how and why medical technologies (devices, pharmaceuticals and surgical procedures) are produced (innovated and developed) and consumed (adopted and utilised).Medical technologies are linked to the expansion of health care provision and costs. Policy makers …
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A dynamic model for analyzing the emergence of new medical technologies
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, 1983.
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The Economic Impact and Policy Implications of Innovative Medical Technologies on the Canadian Healthcare System
… Impact and Policy Implications of Innovative Medical Technologies on the Canadian Healthcare System<br/><br/>Despite considerable per capita expenditure, the Canadian healthcare system faces a complex crisis characterised by strained operational capacity, substantial shortages of Health Human …
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The Economic Impact and Policy Implications of Innovative Medical Technologies on the Canadian Healthcare System
… Impact and Policy Implications of Innovative Medical Technologies on the Canadian Healthcare System<br/><br/>Despite considerable per capita expenditure, the Canadian healthcare system faces a complex crisis characterised by strained operational capacity, substantial shortages of Health Human …
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The (in)Complete Warrior: Technology, Limb Loss and the Reformation of Identity
… American society has witnessed great advances in medical technologies. While innovations such as organ transplants, sonograms, and artificial prostheses are generally seen in a positive light, there are sometimes unforeseen ethical and moral issues that accompany their implementation. Within the …
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Essays on health economics and technology adoption
… health and may either increase or decrease medical expenditures. Using Medicare claims data from 1998-2005, I estimate the effects of HIT by exploiting variation in hospitals' adoption statuses over time, analyzing 2.5 million inpatient admissions across 3900 hospitals. HIT is associated …
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BALANCING COST, HEALTHCARE QUALITY, AND ADVANCED MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN PREGNANCY, LABOR AND DELIVERY
… in the 1970s as a result of increasing medical technologies throughout the 1960s. The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology was founded in 1927. This led to the first appreciation of obstetrics and gynecology as a specialty within the United States healthcare system. Technological …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… levels of society, my focus has been on certain medical technologies that have helped to expose the political nature of death by calling into question the time of death and who decides it. As the line between life and death has become more and more indistinct, Giorgio Agamben has argued that …
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A system dynamics model for the diffusion of a new technology
It is often difficult for companies producing new technologies to predict the acceptance pattern (or diffusion pattern) for the new technology in the marketplace. The expected diffusion pattern is important because it affects and is affected by the production, financial, sales and distribution …
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The Parallax of Personalized Medicine: A Critical, Socio-Medical Analysis of the Trajectory of Pharmacogenomics and Genome Wide Association Studies
While neoteric medical technologies in the United States are heralded as fundamental to medical progress, they may simultaneously work to facilitate the victimization of people who do not have access to that progress. For example, the use of race and racialization as molecular and biological …
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Bioethics and human rights in international law: genetic engineering, euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide
Medical advancements and improved scientific knowledge has introduced various benefits to society, while also creating contentious debates and issues concerning the impacts these medical advancements and/or procedures have had on human rights. In particular, the impact on human rights that medical …
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Naujai atsirandančių robotinių sistemų pritaikymas urologijoje /
Development of new medical technologies as well as searching for more effective treatment methods is a fundamental part contributing in the advancement of medicine field. One of the biggest breakthroughs in surgery in the last three decades is considered to be the invention of robotic surgery …
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Development of a microfluidic device for blood oxygenation by photocatalysis
… testing and the development of targeted medical technologies. Such improvements have not translated over to the treatment of lung disease and lung cancer. The goal of the artificial respiration project is to create a self-contained, mobile oxygen supply that is suitable for implantation …
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Loading as a design parameter for genetic circuits
… biosensing, biofuel technology, and various medical technologies. However, a significant problem when building complex biomolecular circuits is due to context-dependence: the dynamics of a system are altered upon changes to its context, potentially degrading the system's performance. In this …
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Functional Polymer Composites for Clinical and Engineering Challenges
… materials that offer potential improvements for technologies spanning aerospace propulsion, neurosurgery, and infectious disease prevention. The first half of the dissertation (Chapters 2–5) focuses on the synthesis and control of flexible, rubber-like polymers for high-resolution 3D printing, …
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In vitro culture of a chondrocyte-seeded peptide hydrogel and the effects of dynamic compression
Emerging medical technologies for effective and lasting repair of articular cartilage include delivery of cells or cell-seeded scaffolds to a defect site to initiate de novo tissue regeneration. Biocompatible scaffolds assist in providing a template for cell distribution and extracellular matrix …
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Lived Experiences of Post-Master's Counselors Using qEEG Data When Treating Clients
… namely, post-master's counselors and available medical technologies. The framework that guided this research included the technology acceptance model and self-efficacy theory. The study was designed to address the problem regarding the reluctance that some new practitioners experience in …
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Tolimosios infraraudonosios srities optoelektronikos įtaisų žemo dažnio triukšmo charakteristikos /
… for their applications in telecommunications, medical technologies, and consumer electronics. AlGaAs lasers are known for their efficiency and stability in the near-infrared spectrum, while GaAsBi lasers, with bismuth incorporation, offer enhanced infrared light emission. This study aims to …
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Interstitial Building Space and its Relationship to Evidence Based Design
… to counter uncertainties, such as changing medical technologies, medical science and regulations. Flexible infrastructure design offers healthcare facilities the opportunity to combat obsolescence stemming from uncertainties. Interstitial Building Space (IBS) is one of many flexible …
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The Determinants of Hospital Adoption and Expansion of Bariatric Procedures: A Resource Dependence Perspective
<p>New medical technologies have been viewed as the primary cause of rising health are expenditures by health policy researchers in the United States. Since the mid 1990s, with the prevalence of obesity among Americans, the utilization of bariatric surgery, a medical innovation, has increased …
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