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Doctor's drug dispensing right should be acknowledged: forum
Doctor's drug dispensing should be included in the scope of medical practice as a complete prescription act, said a medical policy institute of the Korea Doctors Association during a recent forum on July 10.
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KHA asked NHIC cooperation for people's credibility.
President Kim Kwang-tae of the Korea Hospital Association (KHA) invited President Lee Seong-jae of the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) for a meeting on July 9 at 63 building and asked for the NHIC to be f...
Concerns rise over government's plan to reduce number of clinic beds
The government's plan to shrink the number of beds in clinic has sparked concerns that the plan has neglected the reality of the medical institutions and would promote the medical society's split, according to a speci...
Chain of bankruptcy in hospitals and clinics.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program a growing number of hospitals and clinics have encountered to bankruptcies this year in particular as result of a declining number of patie...
Decreasing number of pediatric and ENT patients worsens pharmacy management
With the pronouncing downward trend in the number of prescription at pediatric and ENT clinics, their neighboring pharmacies have faced financial hardships in more intense competition where the number of pharmacies in...
Number of newly opened hospitals and clinics up gradually
With the overall slumping trend in domestic pharmaceutical sector, there is a gradual increase in the number of newly opened hospitals and clinics and notably, a great number of practitioners prefer to establish their...
Medical circle insists on scrapping of HIRA's screening criteria on common cold, etc.
Tension will become escalating between the government and medical circle over the projected implementation of a new clinical diagnosis criteria on acute respiratory tract infections, which was previously drafted by th...
HIRA on alert as Korean women experience more Caesarean operation
The Health Insurance Review Agency is on a state of alert as four in ten Korean women tried to receive Caesarean operation in the last quarter of last year.
In a recent report on the feasibility assessment of baby ...
Erroneous issuance of prescription still prevailing
Local doctors' erroneous issuance of prescriptions in terms of dosage & administration, code and name of drugs remains rampant and to cope with the prevailing problems, pharmacists are required to strengthen their rev...
Hospital-oriented wholesaling business hit snag
Influenced by the aggravating management enviroment of medium-sized hospitals these day, a number of hospital-oriented wholesalers are in a financial crunch, according to business sources.
The sources said that alt...
