This rule proposes standards for electronically requesting and supplying particular types of additional health care information in the form of an electronic attachment to support submitted health care claims data. It would implement some of the requirements of the Administrative Simplification subtitle of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.

Introduction Chronic under-investment in government health systems has led to significant weakening of these systems and crippled their ability to deliver good quality health care. Through the introduction of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), there have been efforts to increase public spending in health and strengthen health systems in rural areas. However, evidence shows that the incre...

The purpose of this article is to provide an informed comparison of health care in the United States and Canada along multiple dimensions. Specifically this article looks at coverage, access, cost, health outcomes, satisfaction, and underlying ideology. Canada fares better than the United States with regard to coverage, cost, and health outcomes. While overall access is better in Canada, patien...

Qualitative research and public patient involvement (PPI) in trials have increased over recent years, and can occur at many stages from inception to implementation. They offer different strengths and limitations, with both often needed to gain a real world perspective. Yet increasingly they are portrayed as a dichotomy in the way they are written about in grant applications, protocols and repor...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to contrast the perspectives on the social determination of oral health present in the scientific literature published in Colombia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Mexico since 1970 until 2012. METHODOLOGY This was a cross-sectional descriptive study on the Latin American scientific production published in specialized databases between 1970 and 2012. RESULTS The social dete...

Objectives of the Study The study analyzes to what extent social and health care expenditures are generated by a small percentage of people, generically referred to as “high utilizers”. The research is focused on understanding the types of social and health services that experience high cost utilization and suggest how this high utilization could be managed and curbed. Understanding the main dr...

background: according to the important role of health care apprentice program on medical students’ performance, especially in relation with social accountability of medical education, it is attempted to assess efficacy of health care apprentice program on the level of medical students’ knowledge and skills in the context of primary health care at babol university of medial sciences    methods: ...