Can advanced healthcare technology save money?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs' Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Editorial

Peter W Groeneveld. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2013.

. 2013 Sep 1;6(5):509-10.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000533. Epub 2013 Sep 10.

¹ Department of Veterans Affairs' Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA; Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA; and Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

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Keywords: Editorials; chest pain diagnosis; computed tomographic angiography; emergency medicine; health economics; hospital costs.

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Cost and resource utilization associated with use of computed tomography to evaluate chest pain in the emergency department: the Rule Out Myocardial Infarction using Computer Assisted Tomography (ROMICAT) study.
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