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Efficient dissemination of healthcare technologies remains challenging, requiring a balance between ensuring equitable access and avoiding the waste of resources from uncoordinated overuse.
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Editorial
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Highlights the tension between ensuring equitable access to novel healthcare technologies and preventing wasteful, uncoordinated dissemination.
H ealthcare advances have seen the emergence of tech- nologies that are highly effective at improving patient outcomes, yet efficient dissemination of these technologies remains challenging. On the one hand, it is essential to ensure appropriate dissemination to provide equitable access to care. Indeed, many innovations are poorly disseminated leading to inequalities in access to these innovations and potentially contributing to inequalities in health outcomes. On the other hand, many novel technologies are also highly specialized and costly; uncoordinated and excessive dissemination of such technologies may result in waste of precious healthcare resources with minimal or no benefit to patients.
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Isuru Ranasinghe (2013) reported an editorial. Efficient dissemination of healthcare technologies remains challenging, requiring a balance between ensuring equitable access and avoiding the waste of resources from uncoordinated overuse.
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