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Union Budget (2025-26) and comprehensive primary healthcare system: Another lost opportunity?

BMJ Leader

The continued emphasis on secondary and tertiary care, with a bent towards private sector engagement through medical tourism and insurance, alongside the patchy focus on primary health care is strongly reminiscent of the quintessential old wine.

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Singapore Updates Data Privacy Rules for Healthcare Sector

Triage Health Law

Singapore as a medical tourism destination Singapore boasts a strong healthcare sector that is supported by advanced IT and digital systems and infrastructure. It attracts more than 500,000 medical tourists annually, accounting for approximately US$ 1 billion in tourism spending.

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Egg Freezing in Israel: Legal Framework and Women’s Viewpoints

Bill Of Health

Nitzan Rimon-Zarfaty is a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine at the University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Human Resource Management Studies at Sapir Academic College, Israel. Israeli policy has not moved in this direction, yet.

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Koen Kas, the Gardener of Health Tech Delights

Health Populi

The future of healthcare is not about being sick, Prof. Dr. Koen Kas believes.

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Prescription Drugs in the Pandemic, Year 2: Pricing Rx and Going Direct-to-Consumer

Health Populi

First, meet the stakeholders: they are patients, physicians (prescribers, which today can go beyond doctors per se to include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and others depending on state licensure), payers, and manufacturers of the drugs.

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The Rough Guide to Health/Care Consumers in 2025: The 2025 Health Populi TrendCast

Health Populi

Here you have the latest data from The Commonwealth Fund detailing cost-related problems for people who were under-insured or lacked continuous coverage resulting in not filling prescriptions, skipping recommended tests or treatments, avoiding seeing a doctor when sick, or not getting specialty care when needed.