The Brief Life of the National Center for Health Care Technology

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The National Center for Health Care Technology ceased to exist in December 1981. Established by Congress in 1978 and housed in the Department of Health and Human Services during its three-year life, the Center developed policies and procedures to assess medical technology from the standpoints of safety, efficacy, economics, ethics, and impact on society. It sponsored a sizable number of evaluations of technologies currently in use or beginning to come into use and established an extramural research program. Although the Center was reauthorized in the last session of Congress by the Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the Office of Management . . .
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