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Promoting Healthcare Innovation On The Demand Side, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, W. Nicholson Price
Promoting Healthcare Innovation On The Demand Side, Rebecca S. Eisenberg, W. Nicholson Price
Law & Economics Working Papers
Innovation policy often focuses on the incentives of firms that sell new products. But optimal use of healthcare products also requires good information about the likely effects of products in different patients, and it is hard to provide the right incentives for producers to develop and disclose information that could limit future sales. Regulation partially fills this gap by requiring sellers to conduct clinical trials and report adverse events. But it is inherently problematic to rely on producers to supply negative information about their own products. Healthcare payers, however, can profit from avoiding inappropriate use of costly technologies. Recent technological …