Jeffrey C Lerner

Health technology forecasting is designed to provide reliable predictions about costs, utilization, diffusion, and other market realities before the technologies enter routine clinical use. In this article we address three...

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A national patient library that stored and communicated findings from research on the comparative effectiveness of health services could be a valuable resource for patients and clinicians. It could assist...

ECRI Institute medical technology experts (i.e., biomedical engineers, patient safety experts, physicians, and research scientists) compiled a list of important technology-related issues that executives and clinical leaders at ambulatory care...

This paper assesses the implications for policy of recent aggressive efforts by manufacturers to enforce price-confidentiality clauses in contracts with hospitals for purchases of physician preference items (PPIs) such as...

We review what leaders of health care systems, including chief executive officers and board members, need to know to have "patient safety literacy" and do to make their systems safe....

In theory, evidence-based medical necessity policy in health care utilization review may make resource allocation more equitable. Costs can be managed through the consistent application of standards for approval of...