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Healthcare IT Reforms in US
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, In spite of its acknowledged status as the hub of innovation and technology, the US has lagged many other industrialised countries in the area of healthcare IT. The new US President, Barack Obama, has made it a political priority to change this state of affairs, as we discussed in the previous issue...
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E-Health Investments
Author Alexander Dobrev, empirica Tom Jones, TanJent Consulting Karl A. Stroetmann, empirica The increase in demand for health services tends more and more often to outstrip the increase in supply. Ageing populations, increasing incidence of chronic diseases, and improvements in medical knowledge...
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Predicting Patients Admission Rates
Author Justin Boyle, is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Australia Evidence-based research demonstrates that overcrowding in emergency departments causes ambulance diversion, increased hospital lengths of stay, medical errors, increased patient mortality, financial losses to hospital and physician, and medical negligence...
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Nanotechnology and Healthcare
Author Paul J.A. Borm, is with Magnamedics Diagnostics BV at Geleen and Centre of Expertise in Life Sciences, Zuyd University, Heerlen, Netherlands Recent years have witnessed unprecedented growth of research and applications in the area of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. There is increasing optimism...
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Italy's Healthcare System in Transition
The Italian National Health Service (INHS) was established in 1978 to grant universal access to a uniform level of care throughout Italy, financed by general taxation. The INHS provides universal coverage and free health care at point of delivery to all Italian and European Union citizens. In spite of this, there are considerable...
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Healthcare IT and E-Health in Italy
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, Italy’s approach to healthcare IT, and more specifically e-Health, has three facets. These are based on: Ó National-scale techno-infrastructural requirements (the New National Healthcare Information System). Ó e-Health Board, to harmonise regional and national policies and implementation,...
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Italian Hospitals and New Managerialism
Author Elena Cantu, is with Bocconi University, Milan, Italy From 1978, the Italian healthcare system has been organised according to the National Health Service model (Italian National Health Service, or INHS). Coverage is universal and, theoretically, uniform throughout the country. In 2003, public healthcare expenditure...
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Healthcare IT in India
Author Tosh Sheshabalaya, The Indian healthcare system, like India itself, straddles the 19th and 21st centuries. But while the country’s 19th century face of slums and poverty is better known, the 21st century end is quietly readying itself to gain a major presence on the global healthcare IT scene. HIPAA and IBM’s...
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From e-Health to i-Health
Traversing Tomorrow’s Healthcare Frontier Tosh Sheshabalaya, Technology is a curious creature. The most meaningful changes not only descend upon us, seemingly out of the blue, but also completely shake up the way we live and work. In addition, what may appear to be The Next New Thing often masks something else, which...
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The Hospital System in Belgium and the Direction of Reforms
The Belgian healthcare system is a mix of mandatory national insurance and private medicine, a system of collective agreements between healthcare providers and insurance companies (national healthcare funds), and regulations issued by the public authorities. The Ministry of Public Health is responsible for defining laws on hospital programmes, the...
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