Executive Summary Australia has a history of innovation, which is reflected in the breadth of health technologies that are increasingly available in the country’s digital health landscape. This breadth of digital health technologies can be categorised across four domains: Software as a Medical De

The Private Hospital Association has demanded the reimbursement rate for emergency patients under three different state-run health schemes be increased.The association has sent the request to the National Health Security Office and Public Health Ministry, NHSO secretary-general Dr Winai Sawadiworn s

Abstract Background Home dialysis (HoD) remains underutilized, despite evidence showing it provides comparable mortality rates to in-center hemodialysis (ICHD) while offering advantages such as improved quality of life and lower overall costs. This scoping review comprehensively evaluates the

More rationing of care and charging for services in the NHS need to be considered as it faces at least a decade of austerity, experts say.The Institute for Fiscal Studies says the coming years will be the toughest since the early 1950s when dental and prescription fees were introduced.Other measures

Welcome to Bhutan, the land of the Thunder Dragon nested amidst the breathtaking grandeur of the Eastern Himalayas. Guided by the concept of the Gross National Happiness, Bhutan’s constitution mandates access to free basic public health services, for both modern and traditional medicine. Nonetheless

President Obama’s health care law is putting new strains on some of the nation’s most hard-pressed hospitals, by cutting aid they use to pay for emergency care for illegal immigrants, which they have long been required to provide.The federal government has been spending $20 billion annually to reimb

Abstract Return on investment (ROI) analysis is increasingly being used for evaluating the value for money of public health interventions. Given its potential role for informing health policies, it is important that there is a more comprehensive understanding of ROI analysis within the global

The objective of school health services is to promote good health and prevent from diseases focusing on school-aged children. The services are implemented through the collaboration of the National Health Security Office (NHSO), the Ministry of Public Health, the Ministry of Education and the local community. There are four scopes of work: 1) Health

If we raise the word “addiction” to you, what are the things you are thinking of? Ecstasy? Methamphetamine? Cannabis? That is true. Addiction normally refers to drug addiction or substances that we take into our body and cause desire to retake it again. Addiction also harms both physical and mental

(Reuters) – Europe’s medicines regulator, criticised in the past for excessive secrecy, is opening its data vaults to systematic scrutiny in a move that will let independent researchers trawl through millions of pages of clinical trial information.The change is a landmark in transparency that puts E