Sources of Medical Technology: Universities and Industry
Institute of Medicine
ANNETINE C. GELIJNS AND NATHAN ROSENBERG It is axiomatic in recent discussions of health care in the United States that its quality and cost have been transformed almost beyond recognition in the years since the end of World War II. A fundamental component of that transformation has been a rapid rate of technological change that has led to the insertion into the health care system of a range of new diagnostic and therapeutic technologies that had no real antecedent in ...