title: Medical technology: policies and problems.
abstract: Technology was once considered automatically beneficial. Today the health care industry is carefully weighing the consequences as well as the advantages of medical technology. Medical technology has become a policy issue of great importance in public and private sectors.
mesh_terms: D006077:Government Agencies; D006291:Health Policy; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends*; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D011050:Policy Making; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical; D014481:United States