High Technology Medicine, Benefits and Burdens

Family caregiving: benefits and burdens.

Performance-based bundled payments: potential benefits and burdens.

Performance-based bundled payments have emerged as the most recent iteration of pay for performance. These are programs in which providers are paid a single fee for a set of evidenced-based services related to a diagnosis. The payments are typically linked to outcomes as well as other quality measures. This paper reviews two prominent bundled payment programs--PROMETHEUS and ProvenCare--and dis...

High-tech, high-touch: reconciling technology and integrative medicine.

V is medicatrix naturae. Latin, from Greek, originally attributed to Hippocrates, translated as “the healing power of nature.” One of the core principles of the integrative medicine philosophy. We value nature and natural healing. We strive for homeostasis, for balance. We laud the healing powers of our planet and lament the erosion of her natural resources. Ecologically sustainable medicine—bu...

[Nuclear medicine in Spain: high technology 2013].

This article details the high technology equipment in Spain obtained through a survey sent to the three main provider companies of equipment installed in Spain. The geographical distribution of high technology by Autonomous Communities and its antiquity have been analyzed.

Sustainable Intensive Agriculture: High Technology and Environmental Benefits