---
title: "Adaption of New Technologies and Costs of Health Care"
authors:
  - name: "Kulvik, Martti"
  - name: "Linnosmaa, Ismo"
  - name: "Hermans, Raine"
date_published: "2006-09-11"
series: "Keskusteluaiheita nro"
series_number: "1037"
jel_codes:
  - "I11"
  - "L65"
language: "en"
publisher: "ETLA Economic Research"
pdf_url: "https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1037.pdf"
keywords:
  - "technology"
  - "health care"
  - "costs"
identifier: "https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/id/Keskusteluaiheita-nro-1037"
---

# Adaption of New Technologies and Costs of Health Care

**Published:** 2006-09-11  
**Categories:** Julkaisut  
**Tags:** Keskusteluaiheita  
**URL:** https://www.etla.fi/julkaisut/dp1037-fi/

New technological applications are usually expected to increase the health care costs. But they can also spawn cost savings in the long run, for example, when making time-consuming diagnostic methods more efficient and facilitating targeted therapy. This study analyses how the implementation of new technological applications in acute treatment affects the long-term cost structure of health care. The non-monetary utility is compared to cost-efficiency impacts of a new technology. A theoretical apparatus is constructed and utilized in two empirical cases : thrombolytic therapy for stroke, and Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) on glioblastoma-type brain cancers. The empirical cases indicate how the monetary cost-efficiency of the new technologies can be related to the non-monetary patient utility.

---

## Additional Information

**Key Words:** technology, health care, costs

**Kirjoittajat:** Kulvik, Martti - Linnosmaa, Ismo - Hermans, Raine

**Lataa Pdf:** https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp1037.pdf

**Kansikuva:** https://www.etla.fi/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/dp_cover.jpg

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