Kern Steven E, Jaron Dov
Department of Pharmaceutics, Anesthesiology, and Bioengineering, 421 Wakara Way, Rm 318, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA.
IEEE Eng Med Biol Mag. 2003 Jan-Feb;22(1):16-9. doi: 10.1109/memb.2003.1191444.
Economic and policy issues increasingly influence healthcare technology solutions as we wrestle with keeping healthcare quality high while keeping costs under control. The healthcare system is also undergoing rapid change brought about by managed care, shifting care to team providers in an outpatient or home environment. The development of health technologies under new market arrangements needs to be examined so that quality of care and cost are not at cross roads. As these issues continue to evolve in the public forum, it is critical for engineers and contributors to technology in healthcare to understand the dynamics that influence technology need and and adoption in the healthcare market. We hope that this special issue will provide a basis for initial understanding of these issues and stimulate further involvement by the bioengineering community at large, for the improvement of healthcare across all of society.
在我们努力在保持高医疗质量的同时控制成本之际，经济和政策问题对医疗技术解决方案的影响日益增大。医疗保健系统也在经历由管理式医疗带来的快速变革，将医疗服务转移到门诊或家庭环境中的团队医疗服务提供者手中。需要审视在新市场安排下健康技术的发展情况，以便医疗质量和成本不会相互冲突。随着这些问题在公共论坛上不断演变，对于医疗保健领域的工程师和技术贡献者而言，了解影响医疗市场中技术需求和采用的动态因素至关重要。我们希望本期特刊能为初步理解这些问题提供基础，并激发整个生物工程界的进一步参与，以改善全社会的医疗保健状况。
