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Foreword

The adaptation continues

The adaptation continues

The global market place continues to be a test for healthcare providers The technology boom combined with trends such as rising costs shortage of healthcare professionals growing consumerism and a greater than ever focus on patient safety have meant that providers are in a seemingly endless cycle of...

Healthcare Genomics

Healthcare Genomics

Ever since the beginning of the Human Genome Project HGP in the talk of revolutionary changes it could unleash on medicine and healthcare as a whole began However for a while it appeared to be a mere mirage and science seemed to enrich science without ever leading to delivery of any useful products...

Online PHRs

Online PHRs

Bridging the information divide
A patients health record is perhaps the most important yet most scarcely shared aspect of the healthcare process Whether in primary care or emergency a doctor having access to the patients medical history is better equipped to provide the right care at the right time As it happens patient informatio...

Healthcare Governance

Healthcare Governance

Time for a revamp
Corporate governance structures across businesses are witnessing a sea change with hierarchies and egos being sacrificed for efficiencies This change has been abetted by factors such as globalisation and growing consumer awareness Organisations have realised the need to change and their leaders are...

Patient-Centred Healthcare

Patient-Centred Healthcare

Moving beyond ailment
Healthcare providersin Asia and the rest of the worldare yet to come to terms with the paradigm shift that is taking place in the provision of healthcare A relook at planning delivery and evaluation of care is the order of the day The healthcare processes need to be aligned to ensure that the patien...

Socially responsible, efficient healthcare

Socially responsible, efficient healthcare

Socially responsible, efficient healthcare
It has been the fundamental premise that business organisations exist to create wealth for their shareholders ever since Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory in the th century Several countries began building their economies on the free market m...

Rx for Transformation

Rx for Transformation

Focusing on value-based healthcare
According to the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services CMS total US healthcare costs are projected to reach nearly US trillion by According to SwissRes projections AsiaPacifics healthcare costs are expected to reach US trillion by In the US the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act PPAC

Asia’s tryst with accreditations

Asia’s tryst with accreditations

Asia’s tryst with accreditations
Plato surely was advising physicians not to be mere money makers Enter international accreditations Asian hospitals now have an opportunity to make money as well as put the patients interest as first and foremost The National Heart Centre Singapore on achieving the Joint Commission International JCI...

Medical Tourism

Medical Tourism

Enhancing patient satisfaction
Since the time of Roman Britain when patients travelled to the Hot Water Springs in the hope of curing their diseases medical tourism has grown in scale with high quality treatments and costeffective care packages available Healthcare providers are now moving to the next level in medical tourism and...

Data Standards for Medical Devices

Data Standards for Medical Devices

A New Milestone
The US Food and Drug Administrations FDA Unique Device Identification UDI regulation is a milestone in the efforts to make medical devices more effective and safe The regulation establishes a single device identification system that is consistent standardised and globally harmonised This comes at a...

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