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Editor's Picks
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Magazine: Disease prevention in Germany is mostly good for doctors
The Wall Street Journal Health Blog reports on a story in a German news magazine that claims screening for breast, prostate, and colon cancer does hardly anyone good except for the doctors who can rake in fees from health insurers. The article looks at Christa Maar, who lost her son to the disease. Just a year after his death in 2001, she started a foundation that persuaded German authorities to cover colonoscopies for everyone over 55. But writer Markus Grill says the only people proven to benefit from colonoscopies are doctors, who get the equivalent of approximately $270 from German health insurers every time they perform one. [Read More]
Czech providers offer unique perks to nurses
This article in the New York Times examines the lengths healthcare providers around the world will go to alleviate nursing shortages. In Czechoslovakia, for example, one 31-year-old nurse's special perks to renew her contract at a private health clinic included a range of plastic-surgery options, such as complimentary silicone-enhanced breasts. While the move has been criticized by women's rights advocates, it worked—she renewed her contract. And it may lead other providers to follow suit: In the past year alone, nearly 1,200 nurses have migrated to countries like Germany or Britain in search of better wages, according to the Czech Nurses Association. [Read More]
Australian government urged to develop contingency plan for public hospitals
In this op-ed piece, also from the Times, three healthcare experts say that while most medical travelers seek cosmetic procedures, an increasing number have high-risk operations like heart surgery and joint replacement in places such as India, Singapore, and Thailand. The only way to determine of this is a good idea is to find out how foreign hospitals and surgeons compare with their American counterparts in terms of cost and quality, the authors say. [Read More]
Business leaders prescribe medical tourism for sick Turkish economy
Turkey's top business association says the country should seek a bigger share of the fast developing medical tourism industry. Erdal Karamercan, MD, a member of the acting board of Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, said Turkey should become a strong alternative for international medical tourism while introducing the opinion paper: "Medical Tourism: A New Window of Opportunity for Turkey." He said private health institutions with strong infrastructure are continuing to grow in number and the Turkish private health sector was able to handle international competition in terms of hospital infrastructure, staff experience and technology. The paper was prepared to introduce Turkey's potential in the sector. [Read More]
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Global Health Headlines
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GE unit offers interim loans to hospitals, healthcare providers
Wall Street Journal - June 16, 2009
NHS woos informatics specialists
The Guardian - June 16, 2009
University of Findlay (OH) plans hospitals in rural India
ExpressBuzz.com - June 16, 2009
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Bundling By Decree
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Can an industry addicted to payment for procedure survive episodic care? Geisinger has. [Read More] |
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Faster, Safer Joint Replacements
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Hospitals are fine-tuning the surgical process from start to finish in order to replace joints faster and safer than ever before. [Read More] |
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Contributed Feature
Globalization and Medical Travel: Emerging Challenges of Quality and Safety: While price and affordability for patients is a primary issue for medical travel, few would support the growth of medical travel if the cost savings came at the expense of quality and patient safety. Adapting the more traditional and evidence based measures of quality to a newly global practice environment has become an emerging challenge for providers and patients, says contributor Sharon S. Kleefield, MA, PhD. [Read More]
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Leadership
