Disseminating Health Information in the Asia-Pacific Region

Determinants Of Financial Integration In The East Asia- Pacific Region

Health IT in Asia-Pacific region.

APAMI 2009 was held in Hiroshima, Japan, on November 22-24, 2009. This issue includes two selected papers recommended by the programming committee co-chairs. They are "Lessons Learned from Data Mining of WHO Mortality Database" and "Survey on Medical Records and EHR in Asia-Pacific Region - Languages, Purposes, IDs and Regulations". The theme of APAMI 2009 was "What are the medical records for?...

Incorporation of Medical Research and Education in Asia Pacific Region

The goal of medicine is to prevent harm as Hippocrates pointed out; “primum non nocere; first do no harm”. Has this fact been taken into account in developing Medical Education curricula in Asia? Frequency of diseases in Asia is different from high income countries (1, 2) and funds for research are lacking.  It is therefore important to allocate available funds to the most applicable issues to...

Information systems research in the Asia Pacific region

Correspondence: Ting-Peng Liang, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Research in information systems (IS) in the Asia Pacific has experienced fast progress in the past 10 years. A major driving force is the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems. In this paper, we provide an overview of the IS...

Health technology assessment in the Asia Pacific region.

OBJECTIVES Although health technology assessment (HTA) has been well established in all developed countries, it has not found a firm footing in many developing countries. This is especially true of the Asia Pacific region, which has much of the world population. METHODS The beginnings of HTA in this region go back to the work of Dr. David Banta in China and the establishment of the Asian HTA ...