DOTS in China - removing barriers or moving barriers?

Removing Interoperability Barriers Between theX

This paper concerns the barriers to interoperability that exist between the X.509 and EDIFACT Public Key Infrastructures (PKI), and proposes a method to overcome them. The solution lies in the DED-ICA 1 (Directory based EDI Certiicate Access and management) TELEM-ATIC Project, funded by the European Union. The main objective of this project is to deene and provide means to make these two infras...

Removing barriers to insulin use.

Patients with type 2 diabetes and their physicians are often reluctant to begin insulin therapy--despite evidence of its efficacy. Here's help in overcoming this other form of "insulin resistance."

Removing barriers to global pandemic influenza vaccination.

This article clarifies the regulatory issues surrounding influenza pandemic vaccine for the larger policy community and describes the need for regulatory harmonization. Vaccination would save lives in an influenza pandemic, but a lack of global manufacturing capacity will leave most of the world without access to vaccine. Capacity can be expanded if governments harmonize their regulatory polici...

Removing the policy barriers to integrated care in England

This briefing paper uses five case studies of health economies in the English NHS as a basis for examining how local clinicians and managers are working together to develop closer service integration and less fragmented care for patients. It focuses on what is facilitating or impeding change and sets out proposals for policy-makers that are designed to enable more rapid progress towards develop...

The continuing barriers to research in China.