Comment www. thelancet. com Vol 395 March 14, 2020 849 the governments. In Singapore,
the government pays the cost of hospitalisation, irrespective of whether the patient is from …

All roads lead to universal health coverage—and this is our top priority at WHO. For me, the
key question of universal health coverage is an ethical one. Do we want our fellow citizens …

World Report rooms. This is possible because the clinic adopted the “one-piece flow”
production system used by Toyota. Before, patients were processed in batches. If there were …

By 2010, 60% of adults in the UK were using the internet every day or almost every day, and
this figure continues to increase. 1 Although the use of the internet is becoming increasingly …

The National Health and Family Planning Commission of China introduced an important
change on specialist standardisation training on Jan 11, 2016, requiring Chinese doctors to …

Virtual primary care (VPC) services, in which patients consult with a doctor or nurse via
email, text, phone, or video are presumed to offer a number of advantages over traditional …

In concurrence with the introduction of the internet, widely networked computers, and the
collection of large amounts of digital data, the medical profession as a whole has become …

The importance of achieving health-care services for prisoners that are equivalent to those
for the community is an international ethical and moral principle. 1 Less discussed is digital …

We welcome the G20's recognition that the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
“calls for a transparent, robust, coordinated, large-scale and sciencebased global response …

Rigorous efforts to minimise disease transmission in the COVID-19 pandemic have
catalysed the development of comprehensive telemedicine systems. 1 Beyond enabling …