Technology and Health Care in an Era of Limits
Institute of Medicine
Gerald D. Laubach, John E. Wennberg, and Annetine C. Gelijns This volume summarizes the third of a series of Institute of Medicine (IOM) workshops whose intent is to critically examine medical innovation— that is, the process by which medical research findings are translated into actual benefits in clinical practice. The raison d''étre for this third workshop (see Appendix A) is deftly captured in the opening sentence of the second chapter: ''''The U.S. health care sector is the target of a ...