PURPOSE To assess availability of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine at medical practices in an area with elevated cervical cancer rates. METHODS During July-November 2007, we conducted a telephone survey of staff at medical practices providing outpatient care to 9- to 26-year-old females in four North Carolina counties with elevated cervical cancer rates. We assessed availability of HPV vacc...

This session will advance the development of sustainable complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) practice models by presenting the business plan for a model integrative primary care clinic, its results to date, and the plan for its continuous evaluation. The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine recently opened the University of Arizona Integrative Health Center (UAIHC), an adult primary...

The world of e-health and e-medicine offer hematologists and oncologists wonderful opportunities to enhance and expand their practices and to offer patients the opportunity to gain access to information and specialty care never before available. Legal and political challenges abound, however, concerning the practice and financing of e-health and e-medicine. Financing and reimbursement for e-med...

Background Over 10 years after the establishment of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana, the use of a median pricing methodology for pharmaceuticals remains a topic of debate due to its positive and negative outcomes. Residual effects of this pricing methodology include proliferation of low-quality medicines, irrational medicine use, insurance fraud and other untoward outcomes....

Numerous observers have expressed growing concerns regarding health care delivery, medical malpractice, and litigation against health care providers, although, for years, all fifty of the states have instituted and applied a broad spectrum of medical malpractice reforms while experimenting with various other measures. Some commentators believe that the health care delivery system is now experie...

BACKGROUND Limited resources and expanding expectations push all countries and types of health systems to adopt new approaches in priority setting and resources allocation. Despite best efforts, it is difficult to reconcile all competing interests, and trade-offs are inevitable. This is why multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) has played a major role in recent uptake of value-based reimburse...

PCN215 Next GeNeratioN SequeNCiNG teChNoloGy: health teChNoloGy aSSeSSmeNt, market aCCeSS treNdS aNd PoteNtial imPaCtS oN the Future oF ComPaNioN diaGNoStiC teStiNG Faulkner E.C.1, Spinner D.S.2, Ransom J.F.3, Paul A.4, Chawla A.S.5, Doyle J.J.6, Shaw W.H.2, Fitzgerald J.T.2 1Institute for Pharmacogenomics and Individualized Therapy, Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Ch...

Objective This review is a general outline to have proper understanding of Japanese Kampo medicine from my point view. Background What the basis medical care? The answer how capture signals emitted by living body. In western medicine, diagnosis with disease name required for therapy acquire insurance reimbursement. contrast, in pathophysiological choosing medication. Western science disease, wh...