Technology Is Not The Reason For Cost Escalation in Health Care – It Is How We Misuse It

Guest post by Stephen C. Schimpff, MD We are often told that the reason for the high cost of medical care is all of our new technologies and drugs. There is an element of truth in that but when used correctly, new technologies save lives and improve the quality of patient care and often improve safety.  But technologies used inappropriately increase costs while not improving quality and may adversely impact safety. Here is a patient…

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