Background In recent years, accreditation of private hospitals followed by decentralisation of the Italian National Health Service (NHS) into 21 regional health systems has provided a good empirical ground for investigating the Tiebout principle of “voting with their feet”. We examine the infra-regional trade-off between greater patient choice (due to an increase in hospital services supply) an...

Grid computing is a next evolutionary level of distributed computing. It integrates the users and resources which are scattered in various domains. The Grid and it’s related technologies will be used only if the users and the providers are mutually trusting each other. The system must be as reliable and robust as of their own. The reliability can be defined as the probability of any process to ...

Objectives: Urban leprosy control has been a challenging area for the programme. Effective counselling is often compromised due to lack of time and space, despite the availability of trained and well-meaning healthcare personnel. We therefore sought to use mobile technology to improve communication. Methods: We piloted a strategy in Kolkata called ‘aami achhi’ (meaning ‘I am there’ in Bengali) ...

The purpose of this paper is to share the experiences and successes of our clinic in Australia where we have been using the bioresonance method since 1998 after training in England. Initially we were seeing 60-70 patients per week but currently we see only half this number to make time for training and support of other therapists in the region as we are also the Regumed representatives. We pass...

The amount of older patients who are discharged from hospitals while continuing to need care is increasing in Norway. The transition between different care services has the potential for high rates of medication errors, incomplete or inaccurate information transfer, and lack of appropriate follow-up care. Thus, insight into the transition process is vital to understanding the complexity and vul...