The question " Is quality affordable? " is loaded with dynamite! Can a person who lives on less than US $1 per day afford a high-quality cataract operation? If the answer is 'No', then do we offer that person poor or low-quality services? Do people living in poverty have a 'right' to high-quality eye or health care? If the answer is 'Yes', then at what price and who should pay? Should we ignore...

Ultrasound diagnostic skills for medical students and professionals are becoming increasingly important as ultrasound technology has become more portable and effective, but the training to develop these skills is also very expensive due to cost of equipment and the requirement of a human subject. Our goal is to create an inexpensive computer-based augmented reality training simulator to supplem...

Telemedicine becomes increasingly important, especially in rural areas or for rare diseases requiring an expert’s opinion. Due to the widespread use of proprietary communication protocols, existing telemedicine approaches can only incorporate a subset of relevant medical devices. Thus, the remote physician is dependent on on-site colleagues and video-based reading of the device and medical para...

Affordable housing is of much importance for Chinese subsidized housing. However, the implementation of the affordable housing policy is facing several problems. One crucial problem is that the current policy cannot effectively identify high-income applicants who are not qualified to apply for affordable housing. Based on the theory of incentive mechanism design, this paper reveals that the cur...

Urbanization and industrialization in China result in dramatic growth of population in urban areas. The housing price rises so high that low-income people living in urban cannot afford to buy their own houses. In order to alleviate their housing plight, affordable housing has been built in mainland China. However, unfair distribution of affordable housing failed to accomplish the goal of this p...