T he Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) could be the most significant federal health care reform in a generation. Called “Kassebaum-Kennedy” after its sponsors, former Sen. Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS) and Sen. EdwardM.Kennedy (D-MA), the act creates the first national standards for the availability and portability of group and individual health insurance coverage, re...

to determine the factors affecting the acceptation of rice insurance in sari township a number of 90 farmers (45 assured and 45 not assured) were sampled. the information consisted of personal (age, size of family, activity experiment, damage experiment, and non-farm income); social (studies level, agrarian regimes, locality); and geography (farm size, distance between farm to insurance broker)...

INTRODUCTION With the growing use of electronic medical records, electronic health records (EHRs), and personal health records (PHRs) for health care delivery, new opportunities have arisen for population health researchers. Our objective was to characterize PHR users and examine sample representativeness and nonresponse bias in a study of pregnant women recruited via the PHR. DESIGN Demograp...

The Australian and German healthcare system share extensive similarities in their financial and administrative structures. Both countries follow a two-tiered system offering both public and private insurance. As Germany adapted the Australian DRG system in 2003 to bill patients according to diagnosis-related case rates, patient treatment and accounting also follow similar practices. Despite the...

INTRODUCTION Research suggests that electronic messaging can improve patient engagement. Studies indicate that a 'digital divide' may exist, where certain patient populations may be using electronic messaging less frequently. This study aims to determine which patient characteristics are associated with different levels of usage of an electronic patient-provider messaging system in a diverse ur...

INTRODUCTION Limited data exist on insured patients who receive care at publically funded sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics, despite having access to a primary care provider. In this analysis, we compare patients with and without health insurance who sought services at City Clinic, the San Francisco municipal STD clinic. METHODS We analyzed San Francisco City Clinic patients between ...

according to statistics released by agricultural insurance fund (aif) less than 4 million acres out of 90 million acres has been covered by pastures insurance. this observation along with several facts motivated authors to study possible barriers which pastures insurance has been encountered in practice. the research population included all the experts in agricultural insurance fund. small popu...

While just 10 years ago the health system largely relied on paper, today nearly all hospitals and three-fourths of office-based physicians are using certified electronic health records (EHRs), in part, as a result of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009. Moreover, thanks to the Affordable Care Act, more than 90% of Americans now have health ins...

The notion that genes play a uniquely distinguished rôle in biological evolution has been championed by Richard Dawkins (1976; 1989b). Furthermore, Dawkins has argued that this idea can be generalised in a way which makes it applicable to any properly Darwinian evolutionary process, at least if that process gives rise to a growth in adaptive complexity (Dawkins 1983). It is evident, therefore, ...

The basic information technology for epidemiologic surveillance was once (and often still is) “shoe-leather”—a term that harkens back to the days of John Snow and his predecessors, when data collection was limited by how far an epidemiologist could walk. Since then, the technological tools for data collection have evolved. The gradual adoption of the telephone in the late 19th and early 20th ce...