The impact of the refugee crisis on the Lebanese healthcare system

Many column inches have been dedicated to the Syrian conflict and the resultant refugee crisis, the  impact of which has been particularly felt in neighboring countries like Lebanon. Less acknowledged but deserving of recognition is the shocking reality that Lebanon’s healthcare system has performed with surprising efficacy in coping with this crisis. The much-maligned and…… Read More

The social and economical cost of mental health in Lebanon

In Lebanon, one in four people suffer from mental illness in their lifetime, according to non-profit mental health NGO Embrace. Mental health refers to the condition of a person’s emotional or psychological well-being, in the same way that physical health refers to the condition of their body. Although the public discussion around mental health in…… Read More

Issues and concerns at the intersection of health and finance

In the opening line of American economist and public health expert Selma J. Mushkin’s paper titled “Towards a definition of health economics,” she pointed out two factors shaping the health issue: technological progress and increases in life expectancy. That was in 1958, a few years after the first wave of mass immunizations in the United…… Read More

A look into Lebanon’s healthcare

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The Global Health Observatory of the World Health Organization (WHO) puts the world’s expenditure on health at $7.2 trillion (2015 estimate), or 10 percent of the world’s GDP.…… Read More

MediBloc to participate in government-funded project (NIA project), making it the First Government Funded Blockchain Project in South Korea

MediBloc will be working together with the National Information Society Agency(NIA); a quasi-government agency under the Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea, making MediBloc, the first government-funded blockchain project in South Korea. Also, the world’s first government-funded project that allows the health data transfer between big hospitals using blockchain-based personal health record platform. […]

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MediBloc to participate in government-funded project (NIA project), making it the First Government Funded Blockchain Project in South Korea

MediBloc will be working together with the National Information Society Agency(NIA); a quasi-government agency under the Ministry of Science and ICT in South Korea, making MediBloc, the first government-funded blockchain project in South Korea. Also, the world’s first government-funded project that allows the health data transfer between big hospitals using blockchain-based personal health record platform. […]

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What is MediBloc and what’s their plan?

The blockchain technology has been applied in a number of sectors of the economy, one of such sectors being the staid healthcare sector. From management and security of medical data to facilitating clinical trials and medical research, blockchain is clearly the revolutionary technology that can transform the healthcare industry both for the healthcare providers and […]

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