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Editor's Picks
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Looking to the developing world for healthcare ideas
This piece from the Wall Street Journal examines how some U.S. healthcare programs are trying to lower costs and improve care by modeling them after healthcare solutions used in poor nations. The "Project Connect" program at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, for example, is based on a program used in AIDS clinics in Zambia. But there are obstacles, the article notes: the complexities of the U.S. insurance reimbursement and regulations designed to protect patients can hamper the efforts borrowed from the poorer nations, to name just a few. [Read More]
European healthcare has drawbacks
This article provides another examination of how the U.S. could potentially model healthcare programs after policies in foreign nations, but on a much broader scale. Critics fear President Obama's reforms will lead to more government control over healthcare and cite problems faced by European health systems with socialized programs. But others say Americans could learn from countries like Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, especially in the debate over how to reorganize health insurance. The Associated Press outlines the health policies in several European nations, and provides the benefits and drawbacks of government-run healthcare. [Read More]
Korean government starts medical interpreter program
As the country continues to seek medical tourism business, the Korean government has started a program to train medical interpreters to help hospitals avoid language barriers when providing services to foreign patients. The Korea Human Resource Development Institute, a subordinate of the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Family Affairs, selected 65 trainees for its 200-hour program to develop medical interpreters in English, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Arabic. The curriculum consists of understanding communications in the medical field, methods of consulting specific patients, domestic and international medical laws, health insurance coverage, and understanding of major diseases and their treatments. [Read More]
NHS restrictions prompt fertility tourism
In a unique medical tourism trend, women over the age of 40 are traveling to distant fertility clinics in Europe to try to get pregnant because of rules imposed by the UK's National Health Service, according to a study. Francoise Shenfield from University College hospital in London, who coordinated the study, said that although the UK has some of the most liberal fertility laws in Europe, there were "all kinds of barriers" from the NHS, including age limits and waiting lists. [Read More]
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Global Health Headlines
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The Emotional Cost of Nursing
Keri Mucci, for HealthLeaders Media - July 7, 2009
Hospitals: H1N1 Could Get Rough This Fall
Cheryl Clark, for HealthLeaders Media - July 7, 2009
How Much Personal Protective Equipment is Enough During a Pandemic?
Scott Wallask and Evan Sweeney, for HealthLeaders Media - June 23, 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
Continuity of Care and the International Patient: HealthLeaders Media contributor Joseph S. Barcie, MD, PhD, MBA, says the time has come for leadership in the medical travel industry to focus on one of the most important issues facing all stakeholders: continuity of care. [Read More]
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