Opportunity costs associated with technology expansion in the MUHC
McGregor M
Record ID 32010000169
English
Authors' recommendations:
Every time the net costs of new technologies are not reimbursed by government, there is an equivalent reduction in the funds available for hospital operation.
In the year 2007-08, in five cost centres of the MUHC, approximately $6.5 million net was spent on unreimbursed new technologies ( introduced within the previous five years). Thus, the average rate of increase of expenditure on unreimbursed new technology over that period was $1.5 million per year.If "new" was defined as “within the previous 10 or 20 (instead of 5) years”, the annual sum committed to new technologies would be $13.1 million or $26.2 million (assuming a constant rate of acquisition).However new is defined, this commitment of resources to technology acquisition must significantly reduce the volume, and perhaps the quality of the health services delivered by thehospital.
Details
Project Status:
Completed
Year Published:
2009
English language abstract:
An English language summary is available
Publication Type:
Not Assigned
Country:
Canada
Contact
Organisation Name:
Technology Assessment Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
Contact Address:
Technology Assessment Unit of the MUHC, 536-5100 Boul. Maisonneuve O, Montreal, H4A 3T2
Contact Name:
eva.suarthana@mcgill.ca
Contact Email:
nisha.almeida@muhc.mcgill.ca
Copyright:
Technology Assessment Unit of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC)
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