Taiwan Lee Po-Chang, director general of Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Administration (NHIA) details his main priorities to further strengthen the country’s widely acclaimed single-payer health system, which already stands as one of the most advanced in the region, while adapting the NHIA to evolving healthcare needs and to the growing challenges…
Taiwan In an exclusive interview conducted on the 22nd of December 2016, Taiwan’s Minister of Health and Welfare Lin Tzou-yien discussed improving Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI), ensuring that Taiwanese patients can access innovative treatments, and nurturing the development of Taiwan’s thriving R&D-driven pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Minister Lin, you became…
Pharma A leading consultant to IMS and Professor at Paris Dauphine University reveals how the French healthcare system is moving in two main strategic directions: increasingly relying on private funding through complementary health insurance, and breaking with the egalitarian principle that everybody should be reimbursed to the same extent irrespective of…
pharma The General Manager of Boehringer Ingelheim South Africa talks about changes that are required to the healthcare system, with far more government/private partnerships, helping to unlock the country´s potential, why South Africa acts as a springboard for many companies looking to develop their footprint in the region, making it the…
health policy Recognized by the University of Pennsylvania as one of the top 30 think tanks in the world for health policy, FUNSALUD is committed to propose solutions to Mexico’s most important challenges with regard to healthcare. The recently appointed executive president discusses the current challenges of the sector and how the…
health insurance Taiwan’s current health minister reflects on Taiwan’s prestigious healthcare system, the problems in the first generation health insurance system that were fixed in the second, and strategies to rectify the continuous problem of price cuts. Shortly following our interview, the heretofore-Department of Health will become the Ministry of Health and…
National Health Insurance House of Romania (CNAS) If we first take a look at the healthcare system in Romania, it is clear that finding adequate funding has been a key challenge for many years. With 3.6% of GDP being spent on healthcare, Romania equals levels of countries such as Burundi and Bangladesh. In your view, what were…
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