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News and Articles on Technology Assessment
State drawing hard lines in reducing health care costs Jul 4, 2009
The state Health Care Authority s Heath Technology Assessment Program ruled against virtual colonoscopy after hearing from experts and the public and considering scientific research ... The virtual procedure is just as safe as a standard colonoscopy, and just as effective in finding problems, the Health Technology Assessment Program decided last year. (Longview Daily News, WA)
Washington state health panel could be model for U.S. Jun 6, 2009
"The legislature has stood by the program it helped create, however, and the state medical association also supports the panel's work.Congress, by contrast, sometimes gets involved in Medicare coverage decisions. Even though the federal health program for the elderly doesn't have explicit authority to base its coverage decisions on cost-effectiveness, that hasn't stopped its congressional overseers, as well as industry and patient groups, from complaining that adverse decisions might discourage... (Anchorage Daily News)
The Cult of Ronald Reagan, part XIV May 5, 2009
At present, according to the Office of Technology Assessment, there are approximately 378,000 waste sites that may require corrective action. The vast majority (87 percent, on one estimate) pose threats of groundwater contamination. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
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