Can Technology Cut Health Care Costs?

During the meeting "experts assembled at UC San Francisco's Mission Bay campus on the Kauffman Foundation’s dime to sit in on what became part lecture, part discussion, and part free-form intellectual improvisation on the idea of reducing health care costs through technology. Even when the data is available, health care systems are slow to do anything". Among the panelists was CTSI Director S. Claiborne Johnston who explained that "it’s not about the technology, it’s about who controls the technology. If you empower a patient to do something that a physician previously was able to do, you’ve reduced cost." Read more.