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Seoul Medical Association to protest against NHI pricing policy
Amid a harsh backlash over the government's NHI reimbursement price increase merely at 2.65% in 2004 from this year, Seoul Medical Association decided to have a group rally on Dec. 27 to demonstrate its official posit...
Medical circle to resist against NHI price increases and other issues.
The medical circle strongly resisted against the recent government's plan for the NHI price increase in 2004 at 2.65% over this year along with other issues including the medical and pharmacy role separation program t...
Medical community to demand prescription right for functional health foods
Doctors should be entitled to prescribe the dispensing of functional health foods including selling of finished products, according to the recent symposium.
In the symposium hosted by the Medical Policy Institute o...
Medical community protests KNIA's malicious slander
The Korea Non-life Insurance Association's recent disclosure to a mass media that hospital and clinics are making undue profits on those patients in traffic accidents with a whopping 8.5-fold treatment charges compare...
Medical community to promote selling of functional health foods
In situation where a number of medical institution have engaged in prescribing or handling functional health foods whose domestic market size is estimated at 10 trillion won this year, the Korea Doctors Association ha...
KMA to push 10.6% of NHI price increase next year.
The KMA held the 4th top executive meeting of city and provincial KMAs at the conference room located at the 7th floor of the KMA office at 5 p.m. on Nov. 19 and decided to put utmost struggles for the NHI price to be...
Substituted dispensing at hospital almost negligible.
A survey conducted by two pharmacy departments of Seoul National Univ. Hospital and Samsung Seoul Hospital revealed that the rate of the substituted dispensing for outpatients showed very insignificant figures merely ...
Diabetic patients suffering 12 fold more from impotence.
A DEDE (Diabetes Erectile Dysfunction Epidemiology) study conducted by Prof. Cho Nam-han of the Preventive Medicine, Aju University Medical College sponsored by Bayer and GSK reported that one in 4 diabetic patients i...
KMA blames for clinic business slow to pharmacies.
President Kim Jae-jeong of the KMA claimed that the business recession currently experiencing by private clinics in residential areas should be rendered to the dispensing activities at pharmacies.
President Kim s...
Impeding factors involved in medical e-commerce activation plan to be removed
The consortium of the Korea Hospitals Association held a public hearing on November 4, titled "Establishment of ISP (Information Strategy Planning) for promoting Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy's test-run e-...
