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Synergism in Technology Assessment
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2009
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In 1899, Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Patents, urged President McKinley to abolish the Patent Office by saying, “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” Fortunately for the health care industry, there have been more significant “medical inventions” in the 89 years following Duell's utterance than in all of recorded history preceding it.
There is now a crisis in medical technology, and it has not been caused by a lack of ideas from innovative clinicians, inventors, and scientists. Instead, it is a result of sincere, but often spasmodic, efforts to control health care costs, which in the minds of many observers threaten the national economy, if not the country's survival.
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- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , October 1989 , pp. 477 - 479
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989
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