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Comparative effectiveness research (CER) is one of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s significant initiatives that aims to improve treatment outcomes and lower health care costs. This Article takes CER a step further and suggests a novel clinical application for it. The Article...
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telemedicine services in the United Kingdom, and specifically with reference to its National Health Service (“NHS”). The discussion … patchwork of telemedicine services and light touch and disparate laws and regulations. More recently, however, and in the wake …
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One of the main goals at the European level is that healthcare systems must be accessible but at the same time cost-effective and sustainable in the long term. The implementation of eHealth is one way to contribute to this goal. The presented paper is focused on the evaluation of the usage of...
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We exploit a large-scale natural experiment - the rollout of a nationwide electronic prescribing system in Finland - to study how digitization of prescriptions affects pharmaceutical use and health outcomes. We use comprehensive administrative data from patients treated with benzodiazepines,...
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We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
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Though the budgeting for health has increased in recent times and we see a robust network of quality public and private health centres across the nation, the budgeting for e-Health technologies have not received the Indian health planner’s adequate attention. The heart of E-Health efforts...
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This paper focuses on factors affecting the use of Information and communication technologies within a primary health care environment. A case study was carried out to investigate opinions and views of Primary Health Care staff on the provision of electronic health in the UK. The study found...
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In this case designed for use in a business school, medical center, or health policy program, Kingstar Winning’s president, Zhou Wei, seeks to position his company for faster growth in anticipation of a market shakeup among providers of electronic medical records (EMRs) and eHealth solutions...
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Health care spending is increasing worldwide. Many countries are anticipating a health care spending crisis. eHealth is seen as a way of introducing efficiencies and benefits into the system, partly by increasing the possibility of having patients manage their own care. The author looks at...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of digital health (DH) interventions in the Asia Pacific. This is evidenced in the 2022 Global Digital Health Monitor, with 58% of ESCAP members scoring 4 or higher, countries like Australia, Malaysia, PR China, and Thailand lead in DH...
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