The healthcare system has a drastic paradigm shift from centralized care to home-based and self-monitoring strategies; aiming reach more individuals, minimize workload in hospitals, reduce healthcare-associated expenses. Particularly, wearable technologies are garnering considerable interest by tracking physiological parameters through motion activities, monitoring biochemical markers sweat, sa...

In this study, per-person municipal expenditures were modeled as a function of six demographic and income-related variables, first using a robust linear regression model (LM), and second using a generalized additive model (GAM). A comparison of the two models revealed that the GAM provided more accurate predictions, and therefore we recommend for the client to use the GAM as the basis for predi...

Long study terms and a large number of students who do not successfully finish their academic programs are damaging the national economies to a large tune. In addition, personal study guidance to attenuate these problems is very expensive, too. Misunderstanding of examination regulations and a possible adversely balanced supply and demand of courses can be reasons for increasing average study t...

With the overhead of the typical family medicine practice at around 60 percent of revenues, working to control practice expenses has to be a high priority for family physicians. Of course, overhead is a product not just of expenses but also of productivity. It can be reduced by increasing productivity/revenue, reducing expenses or both. This article will focus on reducing expenses. To modernize...

BACKGROUND Access to healthcare is an important public health concept and has been traditionally measured by using population level parameters, such as availability, distribution and proximity of the health facilities in relation to the population. However, client based factors such as their expectations, experiences and perceptions which impact their evaluations of health care access were not ...

COVID-19 has provided an unprecedented opportunity to expand access and coverage the country's healthcare system via telehealth. Because of growing need for telemedicine by providers, Medical Council India issued Practice Guidelines in March 2020. specialties like ophthalmology, dermatology, neurology offered telehealth services during pandemics. Low-middle-income countries are highly dependent...

BACKGROUND International research indicates that a considerable proportion of health expenditure is concentrated in the final phase of life, but to date, reliable Norwegian figures have not been available in this area. The purpose of this study is to investigate the proportion of Norwegian hospital expenditure for outpatient and hospital treatment which is devoted to persons who die in the cour...

S45 Fallenberg E.M.: Advisory Board; Bayer. Research/Grant Support; GE Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare, Bayer. Speaker; GE Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare, Bayer. Froehlich J.M.: Consultant; Guerbet. Frydrychowicz A.: Research/Grant Support; Scientific stipend Bracco Diagnostics. Other; The University of Wisconsin Madison receives research support from GE Healthcare. Fürst S.: Employee; B.W. Jako...