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Bot MD powers data collection, enhances doctor experience in Indonesia

Healthcare It News

This integration enables more than 200,000 doctor members of the organisation to instantly search for association information, IDI services and national guidelines. During the pandemic, its AI assistant has been deployed across public hospitals in Singapore to aid with remote vital signs monitoring and collection.

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Roundup: India's CoWIN to track all vax status and more briefs

Healthcare It News

Together with Olympus Corporation, the project will evaluate the effectiveness of Cybernet Systems' EndoBRAIN-EYE software at Cho Ray Hospital and 108 Hospital. Eka Care helps fast-track OPD token implementation in public hospitals. The study follows similar projects done in India and Thailand over the past two years.

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Health care in Spain

Healthcare ECONOMIST

This marks a change from 2012-2017 when eligibility was linked to the legal and employment status of individuals) Can patients opt out of the public health care system (SNS) : No, however individuals can purchase voluntary health insurance (VHI) if they desire What share of patients purchase supplemental health insurance : 20.8%

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Roundup: Queensland virtual ED now available statewide and more briefs

Healthcare It News

The company recently signed a five-year contract with the US-based business communications solutions provider to improve doctor and patient experience in its pathology and diagnostic imaging practices. North Shore Hospital installs check-in kiosk for outpatients.

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mPharma & TytoCare Integrate to Offer Telehealth to Pharmacies in Africa

HIT Consultant

Through the partnership with TytoCare, mPharma is reimagining the community pharmacy as more than just a place where patients fill prescriptions, but instead a virtual doctor’s office where they can conduct remote appointments with doctors and specialists they normally wouldn’t be able to access. As a continent with a deficit of 2.4

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Does private health insurance reduce public hospital procedure wait times?

Healthcare ECONOMIST

In countries that have universal health insurance, but limited patient out-of-pocket costs for public hospital services, non-urgent hospital treatment often has a waiting list in public hospitals. A key question is, does increased rates of private health insurance actually alleviate public hospital wait times?

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Newsletter, January 2023

Patient Safety Movement

DOCTOR DELIVERS LETHAL EPIDURAL AT BROOKLYN HOSPITAL An article last week in The New York Times told the story of an anesthesiologist at a Brooklyn public hospital, with a history of making life-threatening errors in administering epidurals, who made a fatal mistake in July 2020.