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The Client Services team at Hayes, Inc. would like to share this copy of the Hayes Monthly Update with you. It is designed to give our clients a snapshot view of the reports that have been added to the Hayes Knowledge Center during the past month.
Concerns About Rapid Adoption of Robotic Technology Discussed in Latest Issue of NEJM
New Technology and Health Care Costs—The Case of Robot-Assisted Surgery, a Perspective article in the August 19, 2010 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), provides an excellent commentary about robotic technology and the concerns surrounding its rapid diffusion into the United States healthcare system. This article supports Hayes’ assessment that current evidence fails to demonstrate superior health outcomes for robotic procedures compared with other surgical techniques.
The authors, Dr. Gabriel Barbash and Dr. Sherry Glied, report that the number of robot-assisted procedures performed worldwide increased from 80,000 procedures in 2007 to 205,000 procedures in 2009. The number of da Vinci® systems installed in hospitals in the United States grew from nearly 800 to approximately 1400 during the same 2-year time period, even though large-scale randomized trials of the technology are lacking.
Robotic technology clearly drives up healthcare costs. Barbash and Glied analyzed data on the number of robotically assisted procedures and associated costs derived from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (http://hcupnet.ahrq.gov/). The results showed that, on average, robot-assisted surgery added an additional $1600, or 6% of the cost of the procedure in 2007. As an example, the mean cost in 2007 of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was $10,366; the use of a robot increased the cost by $1700.
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Dear David,
Speed to therapy challenges and benchmarks will be key discussion points during the interactive web conference, Speed to Therapy: A Multi-Stakeholder Examination of Time to Fill and the Patient Journey, on Friday, March 22 from 2:00-3:30 PM EST.
Jackie Harrington
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