The past decade has witnessed tremendous improvements in an expanding number of computing capabilities—sensors, advanced analytics, networks, data infrastructure, advanced imaging, and cyberphysical systems—that have, and will continue to, revolutionize health research, and healthcare, with resulting improvements in health and wellness. As the cost of healthcare, the prevalence of chronic disea...

background determining and understanding of healthcare costs and its financing method is one of the most important subjects understatement of which can cause such major problems as excessive health costs for households due to the high rate of out-of-pocket expenses. objectives the current study aimed to analyze the healthcare costs and determine the share of isfahan province, iran, from the tot...

BACKGROUND The direct impact of medical expenses on breast cancer incidence and mortality rate has not been sufficiently addressed. The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential correlation between the incidence and mortality rate of breast cancer and the medical expenses in Taiwan. MATERIALS AND METHODS Breast cancer cases were identified from the National Health Insurance Resear...

OBJECTIVES The government of China has introduced a National Essential Medicines Policy (NEMP) in the new round of health system reform. The objective of this paper is to analyse whether the NEMP can play a role in curbing the rise of medical expenditures without disrupting the availability of healthcare services at township hospitals in China. DESIGN This study adopted a pre-post treatment-c...

To contain escalating healthcare spending has become a great challenge for many countries around the world. Among all factors influencing medical costs, extensive studies have shown that adoption of healthy lifestyles such as not smoking, moderate drinking, eating healthy food, and exercising regularly can contribute to good health and lower the odds of having diseases that result in higher med...

Healthcare facilities face limited resources and expanding expenses. Emerging information technologies offer a means for healthcare to measure and control their resources and workflow processes, and ultimately improve patient care. The usefulness of one emerging information technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), is examined in a “proof of application” study conducted at a Level-1 tr...

The number of healthcare organizations that require targeted cost reduction due to state and federal budget shortfalls demands intense senior leader accountability. Leaders are discovering that traditional methods for curbing expenses have been largely exhausted, and they seek fresh approaches to meet their strategic imperatives. This study of more than 200 U.S. healthcare organizations, which ...

Introduction The Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana (RSBY) is a financial protection scheme in India. It is aimed at protecting families below poverty line (BPL) against catastrophic health expenses. It also seeks to increase their access to healthcare and expand the choice of providers. We undertook a series of studies in Chhattisgarh to examine: a) the key issues in the design and implementation ...

Objectives: To review the cost and outcomes of conservative and surgical treatment of epistaxis in the mean length of hospital stay, mean total hospital charges to patient and estimated mean total hospital expenses for patient in Malaysian government healthcare system setting, another perspective as previously published studies were predominantly from the western countries. Study design: Retros...