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The Regulation Guillotine has created two different responses in the healthcare industry
As the government disclosed the Regulation Guillotine, including the chiropractic qualification, the tattooist legalization, and the extensive use of modern medical equipment for oriental doctors, the pharmaceutical i...
The HIRA extended to disclose non-benefit medical expenses with a wider range
The Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service (HIRA) additionally disclosed non-benefit medical expenses of general hospitals having less than 300 sickbeds and dental clinics attached to dental schools on the 30th....
Significant changes will arrive in the healthcare industry
The government approved telemedicine while approving the use of modern medical equipment on oriental doctors.
The government held the regulation guillotine meeting with public and private sectors, participated with v...
The most occurred cancer was thyroid cancer in 2012… the 5-year survival rate was 68%.
It is observed that the most occurred cancer in 2012 was thyroid cancer. Since 2000, thyroid cancer has continuously been increased. As the number of cancer patients increases, the government is planning to tighten ca...
The pharmaceutical industry is pushing ahead with collecting public opinions about the ‘Selective Separation of Prescribing and Dispensing Drugs’
The pharmaceutical industry will collect public opinions about the ‘Selective Separation of Prescribing and Dispensing Drugs’.
The Selective Separation is a policy to allow hospitals and medical clinics to prescribe ...
The medical industry being sensitive on the term ‘Generic Substitution’
Doctors’ association has reacted sensitively on the term ‘Generic Substitute Invigoration’.
Through the statement on the 22th, the National Union of Korea Medical Doctors (NUKMD)strongly denounced congressman Dong-ik...
While 3 new superior general hospitals are appointed, 3 of the existing ones failed on the selection
The Ministry of Health and Welfare, on the 23rd, made an announcement to appoint 43 general hospitals as superior general hospitals for the next 3 years from 2015, and to send appointment letters on the announcement d...
The antibiotic prescription rates for acute otitis media are 88% in hospitals and 85% in clinics
After the propriety evaluation on acute otitis media has been made, it is shown that the antibiotic prescription rate is decreased by 1.6% compared to the last year.
The HIRA (Health Insurance Review & Assessment Ser...
Due to rapid progress of the patient safety bill, severe impacts in the medical industry are expected
The Patient Safety Act has been laid in the Legislative Bill Screening Committee (LBSC) and started to be discussed in the National Assembly. Impacts in the medical industry are expected depending on itslegislativedir...
Patients stopped walking in local clinics while there are more in general hospitals
Based on a standard in the third quarter this year, it was shown that the number of patients visited in clinics and superior general hospitals decreased while there are more patients in geriatric hospitals and dental ...
