Addiction Therapeutics: Obstacles and Opportunities

Health Tourism: Opportunities, Constraints, Obstacles and Solutions

Obstacles and Opportunities

Management theory teaches that successful innovation requires concomitant changes among the system ’ s components to achieve congruence or fi t . 1 Similar thinking has been applied to changing the U.S. health care system. 2 In recent years, there has been growing recognition that payment reform of the U.S. health care system must be accompanied by corresponding reforms in the delivery system. ...

Neuroepigenomics: resources, obstacles, and opportunities

Long-lived post-mitotic cells, such as the majority of human neurons, must respond effectively to ongoing changes in neuronal stimulation or microenvironmental cues through transcriptional and epigenomic regulation of gene expression. The role of epigenomic regulation in neuronal function is of fundamental interest to the neuroscience community, as these types of studies have transformed our un...

Obstacles and opportunities in Chinese pharmaceutical innovation

BACKGROUND Global healthcare innovation networks nowadays have expanded beyond developed countries with many developing countries joining the force and becoming important players. China, in particular, has seen a significant increase in the number of innovative firms and research organizations stepping up to the global network in recent years. Nevertheless, the intense Research and Development ...

Becoming accountable—opportunities and obstacles for ACOs.

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