Medical Supply

Import and Supply of Medical Preparations

the most representative trade associations in this country whose members are concerned in the distribution of all kinds of drugs, chemicals and pharmaceutical preparations which are imported into India from the United Kingdom and the United States of America which are the only sources of supply for the Indian market under the present circumstances of war. For some time past on account of the fr...

Medical Malpractice Reform, the Supply of Physicians, and Adverse Selection

Malpractice reforms tend to reduce physician liability for harming patients. Because these reforms are passed at the state level, the costs of harming patients vary widely by geographic location. In this paper, I test whether malpractice reforms affect where physicians choose to practice and whether physicians who relocate in response to reforms are particularly prone to commit malpractice. Bec...

Will increasing medical school enrollment solve Canada's physician supply problems?

Automatic Supply of a Medical Knowledge Base Using Linguistic Methods

The paper presents a methodology for creating a semantic model of disease symptoms. The source material for the methodology are medical texts describing the symptoms. Semantic descriptions are automatically extracted from text using natural language processing methods and lexical resources. The methods transform text describing symptoms into a set of rules constituting their semantic descriptio...

An evolutionary approach to IT support for medical supply centers

In this paper, we show that in cooperative environments like medical supply centers, new demands on IT infrastructure are created that cannot be satisfied by traditional information systems. We demonstrate our vision for a system to remedy this situation by offering smooth pay-as-you-go migration instead of forced integration to autonomous data management systems. We give an evaluation of appli...