Fareed Zakaria argues in his new book “The Post-American World“, that the problem America faces in the new emerging international sphere is not so much domestic decline, but rather more “the rise of the rest.” By this he means that countries all over the world “have been experiencing rates of economic growth that […]
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Bill Hsiao, a respected Harvard China healthcare scholar, along with co-author Winnie Yip, also at Harvard, have in this most recent issue of Health Affairs describe the challenges China faces in healthcare reform very succinctly:
China is at a loss as to how to transform its new money into efficient and effective health care. […]
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I’ve written before on the growing concern over violence between patients and medical workers in China. Now Xinhua, China’s official news agency, reports on the results of a new survey of doctors co-sponsored by the China Youth Daily and Dingxiangyuan, a Chinese online medical forum. The press analysis of this study — some […]
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Larry Brilliant writes in Slate about Google’s work to come to terms with the direction of its philanthropic giving. Google.org, the relatively new face of this effort, will be funded with 1 percent of Google’s equity and profits in some form, as well as employee time […]
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In my last post, I ran through a number of predictions about the future of U.S. health care distilled from the increasing panoply of reports crossing my desk (or my computer screen!). In looking through similar reports on the future of global health care it occurred to me put out an invitation to […]
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China’s Health Ministry has announced the “China 2020″ program that promises to “provide a universal national health service and promote equal access to public services,” according to a BBC News report. The program is intended “to reform the health system and provide a national service for all citizens, including the rural population.” According […]
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Health care privacy is part of the bigger picture of a society’s respect for human rights and individual persons. Balancing privacy, security as well as transparency and openness is a cultural and political challenge for any nation. Surveillance is the modern compromise for living in a dangerous world. But how much, who, where […]
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The China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) reports that by the end of November 2007, China had almost 73 million blog “spaces” and 47 million bloggers. “By the end of 2006, the number of blog writers was 17.5 million, and within one year the increase reached nearly 30 million, indicating the large-scale growth in […]
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From a China Digital Times post translated from the China News Service:
China’s Ministry of Health and Chinese Medicine Administration have jointly issued a regulation that aims to set up a evaluation system to tally the medical ethics of doctors in various hospitals and other health care providers in the country. There are […]
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As I’ve had some time now to think about the presentations at the recent WHIT 3.0 conference, a couple comments are in order.
The conference was almost totally focused on what was happening in U.S. health care. This made it exciting and relevant to us. But I can’t help thinking that we still need […]
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