Abstract

Health monitoring technologies are often said to be cost effective or cost saving by helping care providers to work more efficiently or by detecting a health episode earlier. But is this statement true? This session will explore this issue in an interactive session that would be of interest to researchers, students, clinicians and those just interested in the topic. No understanding of economics necessary. It will review how economic analyses are conducted in health care and discuss the challenges in conducting economic analyses of monitoring technologies.

Biography

Brian C.F. Chan, PhD, is an Affiliate Scientist with the Neural Engineering and Therapeutics Team at KITE - Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Pharmacology at the University of Toronto in 2001 and 2003, respectively. Brian was then a research assistant at the Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomics Research Centre. He returned to the University of Toronto to pursue his Doctor of Philosophy, which he completed in 2017. His doctoral work examined the "Economic burden of chronic ulcers". During his doctoral studies, Brian was employed as a Health Economist for Health Quality Ontario. 

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