Despite the many benefits that blockchain technology offers, it’s worth noting that the healthcare industry is notoriously slow to adopt groundbreaking technologies. To understand why take a look at some of these common challenges: Healthcare is a sensitive topic. Do you want your medical records online? Do you want hackers …
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VAT, or Value Added Tax, is a tax you pay on the purchase of goods within another country. It’s different from Sales Tax in that VAT only applies to the value of the good itself and not the price of the good plus shipping and handling costs. What is the …
Read More »Buying Native Apple Trees
The next time you see apple or fruit trees for sale, you should ask yourself where the plant stock comes from. Many garden centres in the UK buy plants and trees from abroad. The truth is that many of the plants we buy when pop down to the garden centre, …
Read More »Hospitals must put cost and benefits in the context
Employers, politicians and even some policy analysts are beside themselves because they don’t know how to contain soaring health insurance premiums and the rising health care expenditures that are behind those rising premiums. In short, they’re infuriated and frustrated that physicians, hospitals and insurance companies are prospering while the rest …
Read More »How severe is the nurse shortage?
The hospital nursing shortage, while real, may not be as serious as many nurses, physicians and health care executives believe, according to two reports on medical errors that were published last month. Although the reports published in the Dec. 12 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) and …
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