Health Imaging & IT - September 2008 - (Page 10) coVeR stoRy By Jonathan Batchelor Health imaging is one area of healthcare that has seen an unprecedented surge in utilization in the past decade. It is perhaps the fastest rising medical expenditure in the United States with an annual growth rate of 9 percent, nearly one-third more than the annual increase in general medical expenditures (approximately 6 percent). As such, policymakers and payors are increasingly demanding evidence-based data to justify the utilization of many types of imaging procedures. vidence-based medicine—the practice of healthcare interventions guided by or based on supporting scientific evidence—is a topic of great interest among both payors and clinicians. The combined pressures of rising medical costs, longer life expectancy, and a demographic spike in patients 50 years and older has led to the charge that healthcare policy-planners have embraced evidence-based medicine solely as a method to rein in increasing expenditures. Public health officials counter that evidence-based medicine ensures that patients receive the best resources for their care, without unnecessary and wasteful procedures. According to Bruce E. Hillner, MD, professor and eminent university scholar in the department of internal medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., evidence-based medicine research in imaging has been hamstrung by its failure to perHealthImaging.com E 10 Health Imaging & IT | September 2008 http://HealthImaging.com
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